What is the RSS icon for?

What is the icon for?

This means that BikeAlameda's home page syndicates its news headlines, much like a news site or a personal weblog does.

This button links to a page used by news-reading computer programs to 'subscribe' to multiple Web sites. We can personally recommend NetNewsWire on the Mac; another popular program (on Windows, Linux, and Mac) is AmphetaDesk. Check out this page or this page for a big list of programs that make use of these feeds.