Well I read the wiki (which I have read before, but since you need to download a RSS reader I passed on the idea. The wiki still doesn’t mention what it does specifically. Is it like a crawl across your browser that will display (in the case of Free Republic) news headlines? CUrious really, but honestly it would seem useless for Free Republic if that’s what it does, as going to FR in itself is like a RSS in that the most relevant headlines are listed on the sidebar.
If you are in the news/activism comments page, and click on rss: add to sidebar
On the sidebar will appear all the threads that have been posted to most recently
It changes rapidly, but if a poster wants to see what is being posted to at the moment, there it is