RSS Primer
A presentation by Peter Fleck for the
2008 Nonprofit Technology and Communication Conference
March 27, 2008
pfhyper [at] gmail.com
Find this document on the web at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=agmj7qdbtqjv_270gdwrv4cv
Slides are now available: RSS Primer
Blogs, podcasts, news sites and most Web 2.0 sites are using RSS (and Atom) feeds today. You can even get your Facebook status and that of your friends as a feed and read it outside of Facebook. You can subscribe to these feeds and read them all together with aggregator software rather than visiting each site. Most of this software will also let you know when new items appear.
In this presentation I'll cover
- What RSS and Atom feeds are
- How to subscribe to them and
- How to repurpose them for your site
Following are the links for sites that I refer to in the presentation plus some bonus links.
Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com Google Reader
http://reader.google.com RSS Specification
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Atom RFC
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023 Yahoo Pipes
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Badger: a Yahoo Pipe application for creating feeds on a web pagehttp://kentbrewster.com/badger/ lastRSS
http://lastrss.oslab.net/
Grazr
http://grazr.com/ Feedblendr
http://feedblendr.com/ CSS-DEV Wiki with RSS info
https://wiki.umn.edu/view/CSSDEVwiki/RSS%2cUThinkAsCMS%2cAndMore 14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-other-ways-to-use-rss-feeds/
Don Crowley's Video on an RSS mashup
http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/2008/03/using-rss-to-network.html
RSS in plain English by Lee Lefever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU Blandin on Broadband
Ann Treacy blogs about broadband in outstate Minneapolis.
http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/