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Slide 1: UCSD Libraries Web 2.0 Workshop Week 3 – RSS/Podcasts Teri M. Vogel February 23, 2007

Slide 2: Objectives (Week 3) What the heck is RSS?  RSS in the Web 2.0 universe  Using RSS Feeds  Pulling (Readers)  Pushing (RSS/JS, Re-Mixers)  RSS Resources  Podcasts  locating and capturing --not creating 

Slide 3: RSS (2003-2004)  Way to keep up with new blog postings w/o 1) checking blogs over and over, or 2) using e-mail alerts. (2007)  Way to keep up with new/updated content on many websites (2.0 & otherwise) w/o checking.......and to repackage or redistribute that content for using elsewhere.

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Slide 5: RSS Feed Basics aka feeds, web feeds, newsfeeds, etc.  specifications: 1.0, 2.0, ATOM...  .xml, .rss, .rdf  Really Simple Syndication  XML file that’s a syndication of website  content Site gets updated...file gets updated  XML – usually not read unaided 

Slide 6: RSS Feed Basics Distributes & repurposes content  vs. blogs/wikis (create content)  No standard to identify RSS-enabled  sites Text, graphical cues  Autodiscovery: IE, Firefox, Safari  To Read Feeds??  RSS READER (AGGREGATOR) 

Slide 7: PULL RSS Feeds --Bloglines Login  Copy feed (URL)  Click add/subscribe  Paste feed  Subscribe  http://www.bloglines.com/ 

Slide 8: You + RSS Reader YOU RSS READER  Select [subscribe] RSS  Checks website [feed] feeds for fresh content  Read what you want,  Pulls in new content save, clip, e-mail items Title, date stamp, link to   full article organize feeds  All-some-none of the de-select [unsubscribe] feeds   article with a click Readable, automated 

Slide 9: Information Flow, 1 Checking for Updates Blogs News Sites Databases YOU E-Journals / E-Magazines ?????? E-Mail Alerting

Slide 10: Information Flow, 2 YOU New feed content pulled back into reader RSS http:// Reader Reader “pings” to check Titles | Dates | Links if feed (page/site) has | Authors | Content** been updated)

Slide 11: Exercise Open 2 browser windows  1 – Go to http://www.bloglines.com/  and login Username/password on board  2 – Find a website with RSS feeds  Select, copy feed  1 – Go back to Bloglines, then Feeds   Add  Paste Feed  SUBSCRIBE

Slide 12: RSS Readers http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html Web Based  Bloglines  Google Reader  Rojo  Desktop  - choices arranged by OS Feed Demon  NetNewsWire  Browser Integrated  Sage (Firefox), Safari (OS X) 

Slide 13: Google Reader Example Configure Firefox to add feeds to Google Reader

Slide 14: RSS – Pull Technology Advantages (KM)  Concentrates INFORMATION  Current awareness/alerting Customizable (“newspaper”)  Saves time  Challenge  Need to use the information  Don’t go overboard with feeds

Slide 15: Looking for RSS Feeds? http://www.allrss.com/rssfeeds.html http://www.allrss.com/rssdirectories.html http://www.allrss.com/rsssearch.html News Outlets  Blogs  Magazines  Entries/comments  E-Journals ‘Subscribe’ buttons   Feedburner News Searches   Statistics Google, Yahoo, Moreover   Wikis  Databases  Social Bookmarking  PubMed, Compendex,  Web of Science, Business User or Tag  Source Premier •RSS Icon Gallery - http://www.rssicongallery.com/ •Free RSS Graphic Tool - http://www.feedforall.com/public/rss-graphic-tool.htm

Slide 16: PUSHING RSS Feeds R in RSS  = remix, repackage, redistribute, repurpose Using RSS to display/push information from  one website to another Dynamically updated content 

Slide 17: RSS  JavaScript BLOG JavaScript WEBPAGE RSSJS WEBPAGE with HEADLINES

Slide 18: RSS  JavaScript Tools http://allrss.com/rssresources.html http://feed2js.org/ RSS Feed (blog, journal, news, database, RSS reader,  wiki....) Convert to JavaScript and copy ‘text’ block  Paste block of ‘text’ on website (wiki, blog...)  Freestanding  http://scilib.ucsd.edu/  http://units.sla.org/division/dche/  Feed or HTML/JavaScript widget  http://scilib3.blogspot.com/  http://scilib3.pbwiki.com/ 

Slide 19: Re-Mixing RSS Feeds http://allrss.com/rssremixers.html Aggregates multiple feeds into single  feed (mashup) Yahoo Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/) – Feb 07  Create your own feeds  Remix feeds & search engines, customize  private or publish  Science News (Science, Nature, SciAm, NYT)  http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/QhDwGL7C2xGyHUa_JjBjOg/ 

Slide 20: Podcasts ≈ blog of audio files  Software requirements  Recording  RSS feed (enclosures)  Subscribing  RSS reader  iTunes  Odiogo  (http://www.odiogo.com/) Blog/RSS  Text-to-Audio  Podcasts 

Slide 21: Podcast Directories iTunes  Podcast411  http://www.podcast411.com/ Podcasting News  http://www.podcastingnews.com/forum/links.php

Slide 23: Recap RSS’ role in Web 2.0  Ubiquitous, built-in feature  Blogs, social bookmarking, wikis.....  +News, Databases, Journals, OPAC***  Info/KM (pitfalls)  Remixing, repackaging from one tool to  another Audio/video (--casting) 