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Those of you who use Slate's RSS feed may have noticed a few improvements lately. (More on those in a moment.) For those of you who don't—and those of you who still don't know what an RSS feed is—well, now is an opportune time to get up to speed.

RSS, short for "really simple syndication," is a way to keep tabs on what your favorite Web sites are publishing. You set up an RSS reader on your computer and then select any Web site that offers an RSS feed—say, www.slate.com. If you point your RSS reader at www.slate.com/rss, the reader will display headlines and previews of the most recently published Slate stories and clickable links that will show you the full article. The advantage? Instead of wasting time refreshing your countless bookmarked Web sites, new content on those sites comes directly to you. (For more on how to set it up, click here.)

At Slate, we first introduced RSS back in 2004, but we've recently upgraded our offerings in both quality and quantity. Our main Slate feed, available at www.slate.com/rss, alerts readers to every piece we publish; it now offers more descriptive headlines and longer article previews, so it's easier to get a real sense of what a story is about before you click through to read it.

In addition, we've created RSS feeds for every department on Slate. If you love Slate's "Explainer," you can subscribe to that feed, receive an alert every time we publish a new column, and merrily ignore the rest of the site. If you live your life in agony waiting for Bruce Reed's next post, our new RSS feed for his blog "The Has-Been" will let you know as soon as his items go live.

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Slate's main RSS feed:

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Architecture - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2079217
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Bushisms - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2063464
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Dilettante, The - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2138940
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DVD Extras - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2067928
Explainer - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=1787
Faith-Based - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2088264
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Fashion - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2083989
Fighting Words - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2073766
Fraywatch - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2070218
Food - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3525
Foreigners - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=82694
Gaming - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2097086
Gardening - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3491
Gearbox - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=104252
Gizmos - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2069187
Good Word, The - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3161
The Green Lantern - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2174662
Green Room - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2170589
Has-Been, The - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2120447
Heavy Petting - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2083698
Hey, Wait A Minute - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2076
Highbrow, The - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2110823
History Lesson - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=5117
Hot Document - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2136967
Human Guinea Pig - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2077894
Human Nature - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2100253
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Interrogation - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2098816
International Papers - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=1696
Jurisprudence - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2126
Kausfiles - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2065132
Map the Correspondent - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2179507
Meaning of Life TV - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2111777
Medical Examiner - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2657
Middlebrow, The - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2110472
Moneybox - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=97504
Movies - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3184
Music Box - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2066612
Number 1 - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2065979
Philanthropy - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2150116
Poems - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3333
Politics - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=101526
Press Box - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=68090
Readme - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2147
Recycled - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2746
Rural Life - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2137787
Sandbox - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2078388
Science - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2093565
Shopping - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3601
Sports Nut - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=83221
Summary Judgment - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=1250
Supreme Court Dispatches - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=91503
Technology - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2126999
Television - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=3278
Today's Blogs - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2111775
Today's Papers - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=1649
Trailhead - http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/atom.aspx
Undercover Economist, The - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2134391
War Stories - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=117404
Well-Traveled - http://www.slate.com/rss/feed.aspx?id=2068717
The XX Factor - http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/atom.aspx
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