RSS & Newsreaders -- The Basics

RSS: Really Simple Syndication (aka Rich Site Summary) is, in a nutshell, a way that you can have content from your favorite sites delivered to you instead you searching for them. Newsreaders or feed readers is a website or software that pulls your feeds together in one place. Here's a short video from YouTube that gives a really good explanation of the whole process:



Michael

Here's the slide show for todays presentation. In it you will find links to all the materials we will go over.

Newsreaders

Here's some examples of some newsreaders:

Online Newsreaders

• Google Reader
• Bloglines
• Newsgator

Desktop Newsreaders

• Omea Reader
• RSS Bandit

RSS Feed Example

Blogs, Wikis and many contemporary websites publish their content in the RSS file format. For example go to to the website for the Greensboro News & Record <http://www.news-record.com/>
and look for the orange RSS symbol, click on it, you’ll find instructions on subscribing to the newspaper's RSS feeds.

Want to know more?

Want some more info on how RSS works? Try these websites:

• What is RSS
• RSS --Wikipedia
• W3schools RSS Tutorial

RSS and Newsreaders

Week Four: February 23-27
Class Session 1: February 24, 3-4pm - Room 774
Class Session 2: February 25, 3-4pm - Room 774

"I thought a newsreader was someone who subscribes to Greensboro News-Record.."

This week we introduce Real Simple Syndication (RSS) as a way to have content from favored websites delivered to the desktop. We will look at what RSS is and some examples of RSS readers. We will then add the Google RSS reader to iGoogle profiles and subscribe to some library-related sites.

Check back when this week starts to see a full description of this topic!

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