General News
ECF News
What is RSS?
RSS (known as Rich Site Syndication or Really Simple Syndication) feeds are free content feeds
from websites that contain headlines, summaries and links to the full page on the website.
How do I use RSS?
Special news readers, called 'news aggregators' are required for you to be able to use RSS feeds.
We do not endorse a particular reader. You can locate RSS readers via web search engines such as
Google or Yahoo. There are also links to other resources, including reviews of the various news
aggregators available, at the bottom of this page.
Why use RSS?
RSS is an easy way to gather a wide variety of content in one place on your computer. Rather than
having to revisit a website to find out if there is new content, the RSS agregator shows it all to
you in one screen. Many RSS readers also 'alert' you when new content from your favorite website
is delivered. RSS also has the potential for replacing some email lists.
The US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia offers several email lists that users can subscribe to and receive news content via email. But subscribing to the email lists can result in a clogged inbox in your email application. And you have to separate the subscribed email from other email. Subscribing to our RSS feeds will not eliminate that email entirely. However, subscribing to the RSS feeds (you subscribe using the tools in your chosen RSS reader) does not unsubscribe you from the email lists, you must manually unsubscribe, if desired. You can maintain subscriptions to both services simultaneously.
How can I sign up for RSS feeds from EDVA?
We currently offer two news feeds for these readers: one for General News regarding the Eastern
District of Virginia, and the other for ECF News in the Eastern District of Virginia. If you have a
news reader, and wish to acquire our feeds, just use the links at the top of this page.
Format options
Our RSS feeds are coded in a format for news reader software to interpret and will not render correctly
in your web browser. You will only see raw code. To subscribe read the instructions that came with
your reader application.
Some subscriber services require a "human readable" format for syndicating the feed. Therefore, in addition to the standard RSS/XML format, we also provide our links in readable HTML format. Choose the HTML option, above, for the EDVA feed you are interested in, if your service requests this format.
Further information
If you are not yet using a news reader, but would like to investigate if this new tool would be
appropriate for you, there is a plethora of information available on the web. Here are some links to
resources on other, non-government websites that may help you:
[ link ] Review of RSS news aggregators [WIRED magazine]
[ link ] News That Comes to You [USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review]
[ link ] Yahoo! Directory: News Aggregators
[ link ] Yahoo! Directory: RSS
[ link ] Google Directory: Syndication
[ link ] RSS Readers for Windows
[ link ] RSS Readers for MAC
[ link ] RSS Readers for Linux
[ link ] RSS Readers for Handhelds
[ link ] Browser Based RSS Newsreaders