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How to use rss feeds part 1
- 1. A quick & simple approach Clifford Young | Computer Applications Specialist & Trainer New Jersey Hospital Association
- 2. Surfing the Web… So many web sites – so little time.
- 5. The news reader holds all these headlines for you…
- 6. So that you don’t have to visit the individual web sites as often…
Editor's Notes
- Hello. I’m Clifford Young and I’ll be your guide through this topic of RSS feeds. First I’ll discuss why we even have a tool such as RSS feeds and how it can be useful to you. Then I’ll go through the step by step mechanics of setting it all up. By the end of this short demo you should have a better idea of whether or not you would like to use RSS feeds and how to set them up quickly and efficiently.
- For those of us who use the Internet regularly we often come across web sites we would like to return to. These could be news web sites, like MSNBC or the New York Times or the Village Voice. It can be blogs written by interesting people or electronic bulletin boards where we have posted a message and want to see if anyone responds. The way we usually revisit sites is by creating a Favorite or perhaps putting a shortcut on our desktop. Another option available to us is taking bits and pieces of web sites we like and re-assembling them in a way that can be more efficient in how we access information on the Internet. This is the basic idea behind RSS feeds. Let’s take a closer look…
- You’re probably noticed that all news sites and blog sites have headlines to announce the article or blog entry that follows.
- These various headlines from different sites can be collected under one roof, as it were, by using an Internet tool called a news reader . A news reader has the capability of linking up with sites you’re interested in and capturing, then displaying, the headlines from those sites. Since the headline itself is a link, when you click on it, the full article or blog entry opens.
- By using this little device called a news reader, we can assemble a kind of customized newspaper with headlines that pertain specifically to our interests. If you’re only interested in the Arts section or the International News section of a newspaper, you can set up an RSS feed specifically to those sections, and leave out everything else.
- That way you don’t have to spend a lot of time scrolling and searching for the parts of a site that you’re interested in. Those parts get delivered to you in the news reader. And you don’t have to visit a larger site as often but can still get the information you want.