20101201 keeping up with rss
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Keeping up to date with RSS feeds
Wageningen UR Library
How many websites do you visit each day to check whether there is something new?
Do you want to track changes on websites When did the latest issue of your favourite
journal appear Are there new results for a search query?
What’s in it for me?
RSS in Plain English
Development of RSS
Web based readers Google Reader Bloglines
Personalized homepages iGoogle Netvibes
PC based readers FeedReader3
RSS Readers
RSS Feeds: Subscribing
1. Find a feed2. Find the RSS3. Copy the URL or link4. Go to your reader5. Click on “Add Subscription”6. Paste in the link7. Organize the feed in your folders
Some pages offer buttons you can just click on to add a feed
This allows you to skip steps 2-6!
Step 1: Find Webpage with feeds
Step 2: Find the feeds
Step 3 - 6: One click adding
Step 3 - 6: Add the URL to your reader
Step 7: Organize your feeds
It is recommendable to organize your feeds in folders
Speeds up reading
Feeds galore
Things you can do with RSS
Spy on tags in Social Bookmarking sites Delicious, Connotea, 2Collab
Broadcast yourself Twitter, Facebook, Hyves
Vanity searches Remix, mash-up, filter, translate
Yahoo-pipes Get information on your reading habits