Cypress College Podcast: This feed is for subscription to the official Cypress College Podcast. We offer both an enhanced version (for play in iTunes or on an iPod only) or a standard mp3 version, which should work in just about every music player out there. Subscribe to the "enhanced" Podcast feed.   or subscribe to the standard mp3 feed.   You can also visit our iTunes Music store pages to subscribe and for additional information. The enhanced Podcast feed and a standard mp3 Podcast feed each have a page in the store.

Cypress College hot headlines: This feed features the news from Cypress College's main page. Want to know when the class schedule is available and read other vital news of campuswide interest? Subscribe to this feed. Add RSS feed.  

Welcome to Cypress College news feeds. The links at the left allow you to subscribe to news from the college. The subscription is similar to a newsletter that's delivered to your e-mail box. Subscriptions are quick and easy.

RSS offers an easy way to check in on news from a variety of sources (NPR and AP news, for example) all in one stop. In other words, you can catch up on the things that are important to you without having to visit dozens of Web sites daily. One quick glance and you're up to date. If you think it's a pain to visit a Web site only to find there's nothing new, then RSS is an ideal tool. RSS jumps up and says: "I've got something new" and provides a simple headline. There's also a brief description and a link to more information.

The Cypress College news feeds use a technology called "RSS" — short for Really Simple Syndication. RSS links are written in XML. These two acronyms are the most common way this type of technology is identified on the Web. You may have noticed an orange button like this     on various Web pages. XML requires a news reader such as FeedDemon for Windows or NetNewsWire for the Mac OS. To sign up for a news feed, you commonly drag the XML logo to the "subscriptions" window of your news reader. You can also right-click on the XML logo to copy the address and then paste it into the subscription window.

Using RSS and XML is something new for Cypress College. Given it's rapid growth on the Web, it appears to be a technology that's both catching on and beneficial to readers. We're starting out by offering the headlines from the front page of the Web site as a news feed. Since this is where we announce things like the availability of the class schedule and other vital information, we feel it will have broad appeal. We also offer photo galleries from the construction sites and of special events.

We'll gauge their use and base any future expansion based on that. We also welcome your feedback.