Transcript Using RSS - DePaul University

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
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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.)
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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
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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]