RSS: The New Information Pipeline David Jakes

“ What happens when the information finds you ?” Will Richardson

“ And we tend to look at knowledge as hard or unchanging…but these days, knowledge is soft. It’s constantly changing .” Will Richardson

Everyone can participate , everyone can contribute ….

27.2 million exist 1 created each second 60X bigger than 3 years ago 1.2 million additions per day 81 million posts since Jan 05

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Flickr, del.icio.us, Websites, ? RSS Feed Aggregator

What kinds of resources produce RSS feeds? Blogs Wikis Social Bookmarking Podcasts Flickr Web 1.0 Resources

RSS connects information and people together…in a personally defined network .

Where people subscribe to people … Cisco Systems

I’ve learned more in the past two years… Informal learning

My Aggregator of choice…Bloglines … or Google Reader

Google Reader

PageFlakes

Where to find feeds: My public feeds: www.bloglines.com/public/djakes

Where to find feeds: blogs Technorati Google Blog Search Blogrolls (Mark Ahlness)

Where to find feeds: social bookmarking del.icio.us Furl.net

Students How will we use RSS with students?

Students Could we have students build personal learning environments ?

What does that look like? Blogs Del.icio.us/Furl Wiki pages Web pages

Trick #1: Creating feeds from “Web 1.0 Web pages using page2rss.com

Trick #2: Creating feeds of searches using GoogleAlert

Where is this all going?

Where is this all going?

“… And we’re more powerful together than we could ever be apart…welcome to the human network… Cisco Systems