RSS: A Real Simple Introduction

 

January 19, 2006

 

RSS

Acronyms are never easy.

 

What is it?

The Technical Side

 

An Example of an RSS feed as code.

How an RSS feed looks in plain code in your browser window.

This is an RSS 2.0 feed. Note the descriptive coding with mark-up tags such as "title", "link", "creator", "subject." In this case RSS 2 also uses the Dublin Core metadata schema.
 

What is it?

The "How Does it Work" side

 

Who has feeds?

Everyone? Not yet.

www.oxfordjournals.org
www.nature.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/
 

Why would I use RSS?

What's in it for me?

 

How do I use RSS?

Feed readers and reading feeds

 

A feed reader screenshot (NetNewsWire for Mac).

A screenshot of Mac feed reader NetNewsWire.

 

How to Find Feeds?

 

 

Finding a feed Ex. 1.

Screenshot with orange xml buttons.

 

Finding a feed Ex. 2.

Screenshot with RSS links.

 

Finding a feed Ex. 3.

Firefox screenshot with RSS auto-detection icon.

 

Need more information?

 

 

Fagan Finder's All About RSS: http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
Karen Schneider on RSS: http://frl.bluehighways.com/frlarchives/000123.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss
 

Credits:

This presentation was created in HTML using CSS and adapted by Derik A Badman from a concept/template by Jessamyn West. The layout and stylesheet are available to borrow via a share and share alike creative commons license. See source code for details.