Before we launch into a discussion of what a Limbaugh live feed is, we need to define what a live feed is. A live feed is a term in telecommunications used to refer to the mere act of supplying a data signal to an electronic component, equipment, system or subsystem. This is a live feed at its most basic and then brings us to the concept of a data feed.

A data feed is the generic term referring to how data of any kind is supplied to end users (like you and me) through a specific mechanism. The data itself is provided by many types of data sources.

One way for live data feeds to be supplied to end users is through the Internet, in a process known as web feeds. You may usually get news feeds as the most common type of web feed. If the data is composed of blog content, then you would be relying on RSS feeds. If the intent for supplying data is to promote Internet marketing and/or e-commerce, then that type of data feed would be called product feeds.

A data feed may be either structured or unstructured, though at present structured data feeds are more common.

You need to understand that data provided on the Internet is evolving into semantic data ? this means that the data itself will have to be encoded first into a semantic web language and thus become a semantic data feed. Two types of known semantic web languages are OWL or RDF. If semantic data feeds are used, the data can be supplied to computers more conveniently and allows the semantic data feed to be reused later on.

A little bit about RSS feeds now ? RSS feeds are basically data feeds that contain data from news sites or blogsites (and maybe even podcasts nowadays.) The data feed using the RSS feed format may either use synthesized content or the entire text itself (from a blogsite, for example.) However, not everyone has the capacity to read a data feed using the RSS feed format. For that, end users will require help from specific software dubbed an aggregator, feed reader, or RSS reader (which all refer to the same thing ? software which can read the data feed you are getting from your data source.) RSS feeds rely on XML (Extensible Markup Language) which is only employed for data formats. It is a mark-up language, not a programming language.

Now on to the definition of a Limbaugh Live Feed ? the Limbaugh here would be Rush Limbaugh, a political commentator predominantly heard in the past over radio alone. A Limbaugh Live Feed would be a data feed using content from his radio show called The Rush Limbaugh Show which has been on the air since 1988 onwards. Each show runs for three hours straight, sometimes with guests that have included such well-known people like Sylvester Stallone, Governor Arnold Scharzwenegger of California, and even President George H.W. Bush.

Content from the Rush Limbaugh Show are now available as audio feeds and podcast feeds. It should be emphasized that the content on this show are not always pure reporting of facts ? there are content which are actually parodies or spoofs of certain political figures or political issues. So if you wish to get a Limbaugh Live Feed stream, be advised that much of the content is colored by Mr. Rush Limbaugh's own opinions.