Brown Bag Lunch on RSS Feeds and Personlized Websites
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Let the news
find YOU!
Advantages
It saves on surfing time.
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Receive the latest updates of a huge amount of sources, e.g.blogs, newspaper articles, forums, etc
The provider does not need to manage an email/contact list of his readers
You as the user have the power of subscription- easy to “unsubscribe“ (delete RSS feed)
Advantages http://w
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It is spam free.
Anonymity - the reader does not have to reveal that s/he is monitoring sth.
The provider can‘t choose his readers.
Some users prefer receiving email updates over an RSS feed.
Graphics and photos do not
appear in all RSS feeds.
RSS feeds create higher traffic and demands on the server.
It’s hard to know how many people read your webfeed.
Disadvantageshtt
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“A piece of software or online service that receives and displays multiple web feeds of syndicated web content such as news headlines or blog posts.“
Reading your news feeds with an aggregator
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An aggregator could be
• a website displaying the latest headlines from multiple other news websites or
• a feed reader application that a user downloads to run on their computer to enable them to subscribe to, and view, RSS feeds of the latest content from multiple websites without having to visit each website in turn.
• Some emails systems also have RSS feeds integrated
• You can also read feeds in your browser
Personal start-pages
Hands-on practice
Don‘t forget to subscribe to our RSS feed!
Online Resources:
L. LeFever, CommonCraft , 2007, Video: “RSS in Plain English” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU)
WhatIsRSS.com, “What is RSS? RSS explained” (http://www.whatisrss.com)
Wikipedia, “Aggregator” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator)
CNET Reviews, “How to: Read RSS feeds” (http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10088_7-5143460-1.html)
C. Sherman, SearchEngineWatch.com, 2005, “Choosing an RSS reader” (http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3531486)
PCWorld, 2003, “RSS - Get the News and Information You Choose” (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,111699-page,1/article.html)
Software Garden “What is RSS? - A basic tutorial introduction to RSS feeds and aggregators for non-technical people" (http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html)
Six Apart, “About feeds” (http://www.sixapart.com/about/feeds)
J. Patton, EzineArticles.com, 2005, “The Advantages of RSS Websites” (http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Advantages-Of-RSS-Websites&id=110491)
D. Nations, About.com, “How To Use Firefox Live Bookmarks” (http://webtrends.about.com/od/webfeedsyndicationrss/a/firefox-live-bm.htm)
Microsoft, “RSS Feeds - The information you care about, delivered right to Internet Explorer 7” (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/tour/rss/)
BBC News – Basics about using news feeds http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494
IIED - Change at hand - Web 2.0 for Development, p. 115-116 http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/14563IIED.pdf
Interesting Resources
RSS Feeds in Plain English: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
Information Streams: http://www.slideshare.net/PARCInc/recommending-content-from-social-information-streams
News on feeds:http://www.slideshare.net/dsricker1/news-on-feeds-aggregators
RSS feeds and news aggregates: http://www.slideshare.net/dcannell/open-house-2006-rss-feeds-and-news-aggregates
Why use RSS feeds to syndicate news content: http://www.slideshare.net/SalFalko/why-use-rss-feeds-to-syndicate-news-content
Top 10 Personal webpages: http://webtrends.about.com/od/personalizedstartpages/tp/Top-Personalized-Start-Pages.htm
