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Using the internet to keep up & go beyond!. A presentation by Celia Ross DePaul University Libraries 26 May 2006. Story is sent to “the wire”. Papers pick up ‘feed’ off the wire. Story appears here. Story is written. RSS : R eally S imple S yndication. Here. And Here. And Here.
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Using the internet to keep up & go beyond! A presentation by Celia Ross DePaul University Libraries 26 May 2006
Story is sent to “the wire” Papers pick up ‘feed’ off the wire Story appears here Story is written RSS: ReallySimpleSyndication
Here And Here And Here And Here And Here Story appears here Syndication
Written once Put on network Appears in many papers
The ‘Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog) • The blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web • You use a “feed reader” to subscribe to the feed • You see updated headlines to your subscribed feeds in your feed reader. • It’s like creating your own customized newspaper! Just like RSS. Except…
RSS Syndication “Feed” is available on the web You use feed reader to subscribe to the feed Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog) Article appears in your feed reader
2. Blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web
2. Blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web
2. Blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web Feed subscription buttons look like this:
Clicking on this button brings up the feed. Do not be frightened by what you are about to see…
This is the feed address. Highlight and copy it. The rest of this gobbledygook is the XML code. Look away! Do not concern yourself with it (unless your inner geek calls to you)
3. Use a “feed reader” to subscribe to the feed • Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) is a free and popular Feed Reader
After Creating your free account, subscribe to the RSS feed by pasting the feed link into the subscribe window
4. You see updated headlines to your subscribed feeds in your feed reader.
ALL My Feeds Headlines from my blog. Click to read. You can customize to see summaries too! Feed we just subscribed to
One Final bit of coolness • In addition to reading feeds through a feed reader, you can “syndicate” the content to your own website or intranet. • Let’s look at bloglines again
One Final bit of coolness (cont.) • Now let’s look at these feeds syndicated to a website (instead of through a feed reader)…
One Final bit of coolness • You can generate javascript to do this at: http://p3k.org/rssor http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/ • Or try Suprglu: www.suprglu.com to see all your favorite feeds as one webpage (with its own single feed). Kinda like this: celiaross.suprglu.com
Now go forth and syndicate ! • Handout with links available at: • http://condor.depaul.edu/~cross5/keepingup.html • (this presentation is also linked from the above site) • Presentation URL: • http://condor.depaul.edu/~cross5/rss.ppt • Thank you for your time! Please feel free to direct any questions to Celia at cross5@depaul.edu or James Moore at jmoore@depaul.edu