Basically, have you ever had a website that updates infrequently enough that you forget about it, but you still wish you checked it? Well, RSS is your solution to this problem.
Every time you see this
or a podcast, or subscribe to button, you can add the RSS Feed to your RSS Reader, and your RSS Reader will do the work for you.
Podcasts are especially nice, because you don't have to waste bandwidth and disk space to download something you may or may not listen to.
Exemple (c'est francais pour "example")
Go to Google Reader
I use Bloglines, but they are essentially the same.
Click "Add subscription"
Paste this link, which I got from the Dinosaur Comics homepage into the text box.
http://rsspect.com/rss/qwantz.xml
Done. Read up.
For more, here's
Here's the Official Google tour
Here's a good primer.
