Feeds are not new to the Internet. They have been around for a long time. But in the past several years the makers of software and operating systems have made them more accessible and easier to use.

To put it simply a 'Feed' (or RSS) is located on a web site (like this one) and has the sole purpose of providing information in a standard format to any computer that can access it. A full explanation of feeds and the history of feeds can be found on Wikipedia by clicking on this link.

Once you use your computer to subscribe to a 'feed' whenever it is updated, so are you. It saves you the time and effort of going back again and again to find out if there were additions  to the site your are following.

Depending on how old you are a great example of a 'feed' is the stock market ticker. It was a small machine connected directly to the stock market that spit out a continuous small strip of paper. It was the way people used to get immediate updates on the stock market

So the next question is "How much to is cost to subscribe to a feed?" The short (and only) answer is nothing. 'Feeds' are free.

Instructions on how to subscribe

RSS feed

RSS is a great way to get The Green Room. Especially if you have Windows Vista. To subscribe just click on the Orange button with the label RSS above it. This button is located all through the site. That button takes you to the address below:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/greenroomfeed

Once you reach that page you will have several subscription choices. Pick the one that is most convenient for you.

VISTA Users: Vista comes with a gadget called "Feed Headlines". When you click RSS button it will take you to the main Feedburner RSS feed page. If you do not see the link on the left top side that says "Subscribe to this feed" hold the Alt and J keys down at the same time. The screen will then show you the option. Once you click on it a small box will come up in the middle of your screen that says "Subscribe to feed". Click the subscribe button and you will then see the Green Room the list of feeds in the "Feed Headlines" gadget. You will then be able to access the last 15 episodes of The Green Room on your desktop whenever you like and whenever a new show is posted you will have access without doing a thing!

Itunes Feed

Some people are under the assumption that everything on Itunes costs something because you have to pay for songs. Actually podcasts (like The Green Room) are free and cannot be charged for. All you need is Itunes software to access the feed and once you do the shows will be downloaded onto your computer. Then you can either listen to them using Itunes or transfer the shows to any device that will communicate with Itunes. You can then take the show were ever you'd like.

Itunes is a free program that comes loaded on Apple computers, but it is also a free program that van be loaded on a Windows XP/Vista workstation to. You can get Itunes address below.

http://www.itunes.com

Once loaded you can then just click on the Itunes button anywhere you see it on this site.  Or you can click on the link below.

Click here to subcribe to the Green Room on Itunes

Then just confirm as necessary and you will then automatically get  the show whenever it is posted. You can then put it on your Ipod or any other device you may have that communicates with Itunes.