RSS Feeds Demystified

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RSS Feeds Demystified
Peter Brombergpeterbromberg_at_gmail.com
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You know Syndication
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Syndication
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Written once
Put on network
Appears in many papers


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RSS is just like that. Except

• 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 the feed reader.
• Its like creating your own customized newspaper!

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So instead of this
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Newspaper Syndication
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We have this
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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
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Lets look a little more closely
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1. The Article or post is written (usually on
a blog)
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1. The Article or post is written (usually on
a blog)
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2. The blog automatically creates a Feed and
makes it available on the web
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2. Blog automatically creates a Feed and makes
it available on the web
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2. Blog automatically creates a Feed and makes
it available on the web
Feed subscription buttons look like this
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Clicking on this button brings up the feed. Do
not be frightened by what you are about to see
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(No Transcript)
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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)
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Sometimes the feed looks more like this, and less
like gobbledygook. In either case, you highlight
and copy the feed address
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3. Use a feed reader to subscribe to the feed

• Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) is a free and
  popular Feed Reader

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www.bloglines.com
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After Creating your free account, subscribe to
the RSS feed by pasting the feed link into the
subscribe window
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4. You see updated headlines to your subscribed
feeds in your feed reader.
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ALL My Feeds
Headlines from my blog. Click to read. You can
customize to see summaries too!
Feed we just subscribed to
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Or click here and read the whole post.
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You can organize feeds
library blogs
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Subscribe to to feed of photos uploaded at Flickr
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Subscribe to to feed of photos uploaded at Flickr
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RSS Feeds everywhere!

• Pretty soon, youll be seeing RSS feeds
  everywhere. Theyre the glue that holds Web 2.0
  together.

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Thank you!!

• Bloglines Feed Reader www.bloglines.com
• Good article on Blogs and RSS tinyurl.com/4s2hc
• RSS Flash Tutorial www.palinet.org/rss/toti/tsst
  utorial.htm
• Sample blog http//pplweb20.blogspot.com/
• Sample Feed http//feeds.feedburner.com/PplTechT
  alkOnWeb20
• SJRLC Feeds http//www.sjrlc.org/RSS
• Suprglu www.suprglu.com
• Syndicate to your webpage http//p3k.org/rss