Dave, I use the RSS feeds on my personalized My Yahoo! page and sometimes it can’t find the feed, even if I put in the exact URL. I especially have problems with RDF feeds. When I click on them, it looks like it wants to download something and I know that’s not what I need for an aggregator. How do the RDF feeds work? I have several blogs that I like to read that have RDF feeds and I don’t know how to incorporate them into my RSS feeds. Thanks for your help!

The problem you’re having is one of the current stumbling blocks to the widespread adoption of RSS and news aggregators: XML and RDF feeds, “syndication feeds,” aren’t meant to be clicked upon.

Instead, in the current generation of Web browsers, you need to capture the URL of the feed then paste that into the new feed subscription box in your news aggregator. The difference between XML and RDF feeds is really something that only the uber-geeks are going to care about…

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