keeping current on news and research in less time camille andrews & nathan rupp february 2006
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Overview
What is RSS? How to Find and Read Feeds
Bloglines
What are Blogs? How to Find and Read Blogs
What is Social Bookmarking? del.icio.us and Connotea
How many people are using RSS?From the Pew Internet & American Life Project:
“6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators…”
“Five percent of Internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online. This is a first-time measurement from our surveys and is an indicator that this application is gaining an impressive foothold.”
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/144/report_display.asp
What Is RSS?
Form of XML Not much by itself – need an RSS reader Various versions RSS stands for:
RDF Site Summary Rich Site Summary Really Simple Syndication
See “RSS” in Wikipedia for further information
What RSS looks like: XML
Feed title
Feed description
Feed date
Article titleLink to article
Article description
Author
What RSS looks like: Reader
Feed titleFeed description
Feed dateArticle title/link to article
Articledescription
Author
What You Can Get with RSS
Announcements News headlines Tables of contents New web page content New blog posts
New, frequently updated information
Why You Would Use RSS
If you want an efficient way to monitor lots of sources of information
World news Prof
assoc news
Tech news
Publishers’ news
Library news
Local news
Tables of
contents
Favorite blogs
Higher ed news
Advantages to RSS
Less clicking and more reading! Helps to keep track of frequently AND
infrequently updated sites Little spam or ads (ala TIVO) Information presented how YOU want it—no
reading weird color schemes
Disadvantages to RSS
Some feeds just have a headline or excerpt, no full text
Your favorite site may not yet have RSS—but you can created a feed for the site (more on this later)
You were once clicking to 200 sites a day, now you’re reading 200 RSS feeds!
How You Get RSS
Web based RSS readers Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ NewsIsFree: http://www.newsisfree.com/ Pluck web edition: http://client.pluck.com/pwe/
Desktop RSS readers infoRSS: http://inforss.mozdev.org/ NewzCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler.com/
Many more – see the RSScompendium at http://www.allrss.com/
Finding Feeds
On the site itself: One of these buttons: Text links that say XML or RSS A link that says “syndicate this site”
Use a feed locator Search Google for specific feeds
site: nsf.gov rss site: npr.org rss
Feed Locators and Search Engines Google Blog Search: http://google.com/blogsearch Feedster: http://www.feedster.com/ NewsIsFree: http://www.newsisfree.com/ Syndic8: http://www.syndic8.com/ 2RSS.com: http://www.2rss.com/ More from the RSS Compendium:
http://allrss.com/rsssearch.html
Your aggregator may have lists…
RSS Panel for Firefoxhttps://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=News%20Reading&id=635
Other Resources
U.S. government feeds: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/rss/ RSS compendium: http://www.allrss.com/ Lockergnome: http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/ RSS tutorial: http://rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html RSS tutorial for content publishers and webmasters:
http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial
Setting up a Bloglines Account http://www.bloglines.com/ Register for an account Pick a couple of subscriptions from their list
just to see how it works Some things you can do with Bloglines:
Clip or email items Organize feeds and clippings into folders Add and delete feeds
What are Blogs?
"Blog/WebLog: a web page containing brief, chronologically arranged items of information. A blog can take the form of a diary, journal, what's new page, or links to other web sites."
Most blogging software produces RSS feeds.
Scott, Peter. (2001) “Blogging: Creating Instant Content for the Web.” Internet Librarian 2001, Pasadena, CA http://library.usask.ca/%7Escottp/il2001/definitions.html
Blog titlePost date (in reverse chrono-logical order) and title
Links, Previous posts, or Blogroll
ArchivesPost and links to other sites/blogs
Comments
What kinds of blogs are there? Pundit, news, and political blogs (“citizen journalists”)
Personal journals and diaries Business/corporate blogs Organizational and project blogs (including blogs for
communities of interest and practice)
For professional development For organizational knowledge management
Not all text-based: Picture, audio (podcasting), and video (screen or vodcasting)
Blogs in science and academia Personal (both research and diary)
http://nuthatch.typepad.com/ba/ http://urbanodes.blogspot.com/
Associations American Society for Enology & Viticulture-http://
asev.dreamhosters.com/
How to Find Them?
Blogging indexes and search engines Feedster-http://www.feedster.com/ Technorati-http://www.technorati.com/ Daypop--any regularly updated current events
http://www.daypop.com/ Blogdex-http://blogdex.net/ Google Blog Search- http://
google.com/blogsearch Your news aggregator (e.g. Bloglines)
How to Find Them?
Blogrolls and Blog Recommendation Pages Blogrolls-Lists of links to other
blogs the author is reading found in the sidebars
Links to other blogs within posts
Blog recommendation pages e.g. Blogging about
Incredible Blogs http://www.incredibleblogs.com/
Factuality and Authority
Blogs should be vetted like other media: books, newspapers, etc.
Blogs trade editorial oversight for timeliness More onus on the reader for critical analysis
Six reasons to read blogs
Current awareness and personal information management
Conversations taking place and subjects being discussed here that aren't elsewhere
Faster updates Easy to explore other fields For fun!
Another way of tracking. . .
Save what you’re reading See what others are reading and saving
through. . .
Social Bookmarking!
Social Bookmarking: What Is It? (1) Web-based system of bookmarks or favorites Accessible from any Internet-connected
computer No more finding you’ve saved a bookmark you
need on your home computer while you’re at work No more e-mailing links between computers
What Is It? (2)
Added feature: tagging and folksonomies Everyone “tags” saved websites with their
own keywords i.e., I could save Mann Library website with tags
like mann, mannlibrary, library, myjob, etc. Can tag more than websites (indiv. blog
entries, photos, your ambitions and things to do list)
What Is It? (3)
Extra-Special Feature! Collaborative--everyone can see what you bookmarked and how you’ve tagged (though some applications allow privacy)
In looking at what others have tagged with the same or similar words, you can discover other resources
Social bookmarking applications Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/ Popular general social bookmarking site Main features:
Page Title Description (optional) URL Tags
Other social bookmarking applications Connotea-http://www.connotea.org/
for scientists (developed by Nature Publishing Group) difference between tagging by general community and
specialist community Better bibliographic tools and finer control
Indication of co-author status Ability to add more notes and comments and see those of
others Auto-import of bibliographic data from certain databases and
publications Better tag control Import/export in RIS (readable in most citation management
programs) OpenURL support
Connotea auto imports info from: Nature.com PubMed PubMed Central Science Supported EPrints repositories Supported Highwire Press publications Blackwell Synergy Wiley Interscience Amazon HubMed D-Lib Magazine
Other social bookmarking applications Furl-http://www.furl.net/index.jsp
General service like del.icio.us but also saves page and allows comments, rating of pages
Citeulike-http://www.citeulike.org/ for academics (allows academic citation info, export into
BibTex format, notes, includes lots of biological and medical papers)
Scuttle/Scuttledu-http://scuttle.org/ -for educators (allows notes on grade level, subject area)
Not just web bookmarks
Flickr-http://www.flickr.com/ Photos
43 Things-http://www.43things.com/ Things to do
LiveJournal, Technorati Blog posts
Which one?
Social Bookmarking Comparison Toolhttp://www.consultantcommons.org/node/239
Not limited to just one Multiple bookmarklet tool
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/marklet_maker.php
Why is it useful?
Can access your bookmarks from any location
No transferring to multiple folders and allows multiple categorizations and uses
Easier to save things bookmarklets slightly more automated than Endnote and
Refworks (and some give you notes fields and export features)
Why is it useful?
Another method of discovery—see what others have found interesting or useful similar to Google’s Page Rank easier to find ‘long tail’ in that few people have to
link with similar words to cross your path Communities of users, tracking terms and
trends especially useful in specialized communities like
Connotea and Citeulike
Problems with tagging
Everyone calls everything something different (blogs, blog, blogging; tagging, folksonomy, del.icio.us, social bookmarking)
Can’t ever be sure of finding everything on a subject
Synonyms and multilingual issues (rose- pink in French, flower in English)
Perspective (me, toread, torec)
Problems with tagging
Tyranny of the commons (better with trusted network/ranking system a la Slashdot)
“Unacceptable” meanings (MLK) Hard to represent hierarchies Privacy issues-what if you don’t want to share? Not on your server. What if it goes down? Free for now but later? Spamming and gaming the system
Tagging is good for
browsing finding other people’s opinions and interests catching latest trends, triangulating terms and concepts
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/
new things, things that change over time
Keeping current with RSSGeneral RSS resources:
• RSS compendium: http://allrss.com/ • Lockergnome: http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/• RSS tutorial: http://rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html• RSS tutorial for content publishers and webmasters:
http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/
And many many more…
More information on blogs
The Internet Courses: Weblogs-Dr. L. Anne Clyde, Professor, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Iceland--http://www.hi.is/~anne/weblogs.html
Weblogs Compendium—Peter Scotthttp://www.lights.com/weblogs/
“Blogging 101”-Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian), http://www.sls.lib.il.us/infotech/presentations/2005/ola-blogging.pdf
More social bookmarking resources April 2005 issue of DLib magazine
“Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Overview” - Tony Hammond, et al. (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html)
“Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study – Connotea” - Ben Lund, et al. (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/lund/04lund.html)
del.icious bookmarks for this workshop http://del.icio.us/tag/genevaRSS