new media & social technologies 9 rss

RSSIST 400 | New Media & Social Technologies

iSchoolSyracuse University

Eric Hansen | ethansen+ist@gmail.com

Outline

Really Simple Syndication, Really

Web Watershed

Choose Your Weapon

What Big Ears You Have

Really Simple Syndication

Technically SpeakingRSS is:

A standard way to format a text file

That organizes content (text, pics, etc.)

In a machine-readable format (xml)

For easy Internet syndication

Machine readable

<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>TMZ.com</title><link>http://www.tmz.com</link><description>TMZ.com</description><image><url>http://www.tmz.com/media/feedlogo.gif</url><title>TMZ.com</title><link>http://www.tmz.com</link></image><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2007 TMZ.com, Inc. The contents of this headlines and excerpts feed are available for limited commercial distribution. You may repost this feed to your site provided you link back to the original story, do not edit the material, and do not remove this copyright notice.</copyright>

<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator>

<item> <title>Rosie Going Nowhere for Now</title> <link>http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/11/rosie-going-nowhere-for-now/</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/11/rosie-going-nowhere-for-now/</guid> <comments>http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/11/rosie-going-nowhere-for-now/#comments</comments> <description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tmz.com/category/lets-get-this-party-started/"

rel="tag">Let's Get This Party Started</a></p><a href="http://www.tmz.com">TMZ.com</a>: Rosie O'Donnell is sticking around at "The View" for at least another year, though it seems she might bolt after next year to start her own show.Page Six says that Ro will re-up for another year at ABC when her contract ends this summer, mainly... <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/11/rosie-going-nowhere-for-now/">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>

<category>Let's Get This Party Started</category><category>Let'sGetThisPartyStarted</category><dc:creator>TMZ Staff</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-03-11T03:05:00+00:00</dc:date>

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<title>Bobby Trendy: Anna Loved the Lip Gloss!</title>

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TMZ.com’sRSS file

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RSS: Really Simple Syndication

Online content (e.g. news) is dynamic

RSS files are updated with the latest content of a site (automatically)

Could be the latest story, comment, photo, podcast, video, etc.

Fresh content can be syndicated (widely distributed) easily

RSS: I’m Ready for Some Stories!

Explaining RSS the Oprah way

“A way online to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place.”

Credit: Stephanie Quilao, Back in Skinny Jeans blog

backinskinnyjeans.com

Before we move forward...

RSS File = RSS Feed = Feed

XML, RSS, ATOM = easy subscription to any news reader

= easy subscription to a specific news reader

Web Watershed

The Blog Effect

Blogs are built using RSS (or ATOM) by default

More sites are resembling blogs

RSS has become a de facto standard on millions of Web sites

Choose Your Weapon

Before we move forward...

News reader = Feed reader = Aggregator = RSS reader = News aggregator, and so on

Their basic function is managing all the feeds (RSS, ATOM, etc.) to which you’ve subscribed.

Google Reader

My Yahoo!

Bloglines

NewsGator

newsvine

Netvibes

What Big Ears You Have

Free Services

Google alerts

Technorati alerts

Wikipedia RSS

BoardReader

IceRocket

BlogPulse

Google Alerts

Technorati

Wikipedia

BoardReader

IceRocket

BlogPulse

Paid Services

Nielsen BuzzMetrics

Cymfony

Umbria

Hitwise

Radian 6

Thank You

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