04/10/23 Robin Good explains Syndicaat to Vance Stevens

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Robin Good explainshttp://www.mysyndicaat.com

To Vance Stevenson June 3, 2007

Camtasia voice recording corruptedbut GoToMyPC screen shots preserved

from which these slides were made

04/10/23 Robin Good explains Syndicaat to Vance Stevens

2We start at http://www.mysyndicaat.com

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Robin logs in …

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We’ll create a new Feedbot

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We give it a name and click on Feed Properties: Edit

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We need to set some advanced features first

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The advanced features sub-window opens …

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Robin says it works best with 4-word titles (in his experience with this program)

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He also enabled digests (for Newsmastering at a later stage)

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Click Next to move on …

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We’re about to add a subscription to our feedbot but first we need to find a feed

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We conduct a Technorati search at http://www.technorati.com . This is an advanced search feature now in Technorati.

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We have some results and click on View all to expand the list

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Here we find the feed link and copy it to the clipboard

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The feed link is pasted in the URL address and there is an option to Test it

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Here’s the result of the test, so we can see it works fine.

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Click OK to proceed …

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The subscription is listed as one of the feeds in our current feedbot

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We’ll add a second subscription now

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We’re ready to subscribe to a new feed but we need to find one first

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We try a news feed from Yahoo

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There are no results but there could be hits here later.So we copy the feed URL to use it in our feedbot.

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The new feed is pasted to the URL Address, and we click OK.

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We see here that the second feed has been added

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We search http://del.icio.us/tag/wiaoc and find that the page has an RSS feed

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With the feed link in the clipboard, we create a third feed subscription

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The feed is added. We click OK.

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As in the other cases, the feed appears as a subscription in our feedbot.

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Robin suggests we try http://www.digg.com/But there are no results in this case We didn’t take the time to add it but would have normally

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Robin shows me how we can add feeds from blogs where we think the tag might appear – here we have selected http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/ and right clicked on its feed.

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We prepare to add this to our list of feeds

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Only in this case, we’re going to filter the output for only the search term we wish to aggregate.

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We select Filter Posts, and then Edit …

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We enter the search term and decide to search only in the past two months.According to Robin, this is an absolute time, fixed on the date the filter was created.

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We click OK twice to accept the filter and the update to our feedbot, and see that thesubscription is again listed (as a filtered one).

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Yet another possibility is to use http://blogsearch.google.com, and this in turnproduces an RSS feed which can also be subscribed to.

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It’s time to save our work

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Having saved this, we can find it in our list of feedbots

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We can also use content from a CMS, such as http://www.webheadsinaction.org

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We can View Posts to see what the feedbot is has pulled in so far

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The list of feeds harvested is already a long one

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The Syndicaat output itself produces an XML (RSS) feed, whose URL can also be copied

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This URL can be shared. You can subscribe to this feed in your bloglines or whichever aggregator you use.

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There are more ways you can use this feed. We can find out about them if were-visit the advanced features.

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First we need to turn on the HTML Rendering Options, and click on How To

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Here we see many ways how this feed can be embedded in a blog or web page.

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and some further options …

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Robin was particularly excited about the Newsmastering capabilities of this application. I was about to learn why we had enabled digests at the outset.

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In the feed viewer, individual items can be selected to be included in the digest or not.

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To publish the digest, you click on the button with the finger on it …

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Then the Update Digest option appears.

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You can refresh the subscription check here

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Finally, Robin showed me how Newsmastering could be fine tuned by editing theway each digest selected would appear in the feed produced.

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Edit the title for example …

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… or the author name

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Save … You can find out more about newsmastering by following this link.

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When your changes don’t appear you should Refresh Viewer, where the finger is pointing.

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And there it is!

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And thank you Robin

For an amazing keynote athttp://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007 and for taking the time to show us how

to aggregate effectively