RSS is short for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. This is an important delivery of news and information as it is increasingly difficult to quickly find critical information.

RSS is designed with the intent to deliver breaking news as headlines on a web site or directly to your desktop without you having to go out to a site that created information to find it. News organizations, like CNN and the Detroit Free Press, have successfully used RSS to deliver news headlines to thousands of desktops instantly. The Michigan Legislature web site provides updates on legislation.

In order to have the news or information delivered to your desktop, you must have tool that is called a news aggregator or a feed reader. There are many such tools available on the Internet for free. However, if you have upgraded to Internet Explorer version 7 (which you should do), it has a feed reader built into the program. Simply click on the "star" icon to uncover your Favorites, History and Feeds. To access the feed from the SADO web site, simply go the home page (www.sado.org) and then click on the feed icon ( ) Follow the instructions to add the link to your collection of feeds. At predefined intervals, the reader will update the feeds bringing you the most recent information from that source. The SADO site will continue to provide breaking news for Michigan's criminal defense community. To access an RSS feed, you need to have a RSS aggregator (or a reader) program. There are many sites that publish feeds. Most are identified by an orange rectangle with the letters XML or RSS to link to a site's RSS feed.