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Using the internet to keep up & go beyond! A presentation by Celia Ross DePaul University Libraries 26 May 2006 RSS: Really Simple Syndication Story is written Story appears here Syndication And Here And Here Story appears here And Here And Here Here Written once Put on network Appears in many papers Just like RSS. Except… 1. The ‘Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog) 2. The blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web 3. You use a “feed reader” to subscribe to the feed 4. You see updated headlines to your subscribed feeds in your feed reader. It’s like creating your own customized newspaper! RSS Syndication Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog) Article appears in your feed reader 1. The ‘Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog) 1. The ‘Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog) 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… Sometimes it looks a little nicer… 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 Feed we just subscribed to Headlines from my blog. Click to read. You can customize to see summaries too! RSS-o-rama RSS-o-rama RSS-o-rama 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 Some of my finance feeds 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 One Final bit of coolness You can generate javascript to do this at: http://p3k.org/rss or 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 One Final bit of coolness 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 [email protected] or James Moore at [email protected]