NTSB NEWS RELEASES, SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH RSS FEEDS

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Title: NTSB NEWS RELEASES, SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH RSS FEEDS

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                      NTSB PRESS RELEASE
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National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2008
SB-08-18

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NTSB NEWS RELEASES, SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS NOW AVAILABLE
THROUGH RSS FEEDS

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The National Transportation Safety Board today announced the
launch of its Real Simple Syndication (RSS) interface for
its Website: www.ntsb.gov. RSS is a technology that allows
Web publishers, such as the NTSB, to identify and collect
specially marked Web content (known as RSS feeds), and to
make that content available to any subscriber without
requiring the manual monitoring of the publisher's Website
to view it.

Currently the NTSB distributes its news releases, safety
recommendations, and employment opportunities at the Board
through the Board's automated electronic email list manager.
The new NTSB RSS feeds mirror this content using direct
links to RSS-enabled Websites, rather than email.

In order to access the NTSB's RSS feeds, interested
subscribers must first select and set up an RSS reader, or
news aggregator, which is special Web-based or desktop
software that aggregates syndicated Web content. The reader
can be downloaded onto a computer or be hosted on an RSS-
enabled browser with a built-in aggregator.  After selecting
an RSS reader, the subscriber then selects the NTSB RSS
feeds of his or her choice. The subscriber's RSS reader will
regularly check the RSS-enabled Web pages for new and
updated content and retrieve the data for the subscriber.

More information about RSS technology, news aggregators, and
instructions about how to subscribe to an NTSB RSS feed may
be found here: http://www.ntsb.gov/RSS/rss.htm.

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NTSB Media Contact: Bridget Ann Serchak
(202)314-6100
Bridget.serchak@xxxxxxxx
               

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