This is how I have explained RSS for the past 4-5 years: Question: Simplifying greatly, what are the 2 ways you can get a newspaper/periodical/magazine? Answe

This is how I have explained RSS for the past 4-5 years: Question: Simplifying greatly, what are the 2 ways you can get a newspaper/periodical/magazine? Answer: One way is for you to go buy the newspaper/periodical/magazine (Pull). The other is for the newspaper/periodical/magazine (Push) to be delivered to you whenever it is published. RSS is similar to getting the newspaper delivered to you, and hence saving you from hitting refresh or checking a website to see if it has been updated. Similar to email, RSS needs a reader/client to read these updates, and these readers/clients could be similar to microsoft outlook or yahoo/gmail/hotmail.