RSS Demystified

Slide 1: RSS Demystified A presentation by Peter Bromberg, SJRLC (bromberg@sjrlc.org)

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Slide 3: Syndication And Here And Here Story appears here And Here And Here Here

Slide 4: Written once Put on network Appears in many papers

Slide 5: 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!

Slide 6: RSS Syndication e bl re t Yo t ad o ila u o s fee va eb er the us u d a e bs is e w fe cr d ” th ed ibe ee on “F Article or “post” is written Article appears in (usually on a blog) your feed reader

Slide 7: 1. The ‘Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog)

Slide 8: 1. The ‘Article or “post” is written (usually on a blog)

Slide 9: You see updated headlines to your subscribed feeds in your feed reader.

Slide 10: 2. Blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web

Slide 11: 2. Blog automatically creates a “Feed” and makes it available on the web Feed subscription buttons look like this:

Slide 12: Clicking on this button brings up the feed. Do not be frightened by what you are about to see…

Slide 14: 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)

Slide 15: 3. Use a “feed reader” to subscribe to the feed •Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) is a free and popular Feed Reader

Slide 17: After Creating your free account, subscribe to the RSS feed by pasting the feed link into the subscribe window

Slide 18: 4. You see updated headlines to your subscribed feeds in your feed reader.

Slide 19: ALL My Feeds Headlines from my blog. Click to read. You can customize to Feed we just see summaries too! subscribed to

Slide 20: 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 

Slide 21: My SJRLC FEEDS

Slide 22: One Final bit of coolness Now let’s look at these 3 feeds syndicated  to a website…

Slide 23: One Final bit of coolness

Slide 24: One Final bit of coolness You can generate javascript to do this at:  http://p3k.org/rss Or use Suprglu: www.suprglu.com to see  all your favorite feeds as one webpage. Kinda like this… sjrlc.suprglu.com

Slide 25: One Final bit of coolness

Slide 26: Now go forth and syndicate • Bloglines Feed Reader: www.bloglines.com • Blogbridge Feed Reader: www.blogbridge.com • Good article on Blogs and RSS: tinyurl.com/4s2hc • RSS Flash Tutorial: www.palinet.org/rss/toti/tsstutorial.htm • Sample blog: http://sjrlc.typepad.com • Sample Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sjrlc/news • SJRLC Feeds: http://www.sjrlc.org/RSS • Suprglu: www.suprglu.com • Syndicate to your webpage: http://p3k.org/rss