adventures in radio userland lincoln cushing, uc berkeley institute of industrial relations library
TRANSCRIPT
From your desktop to the Web
Public Web(“Cloud”)
RSS newssources
Localsources
Yourcomputer
UserLand Server
RSS
RSS (Rich Site Summary, or also known as "Really Simple Syndication,") is a lightweight XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format designed for sharing Web content. An RSS file encodes data (such as a list of headlines, or article titles, or events) so it can be easily used by another program called a "news aggregator" or "news reader.“
These programs allow end users to read headlines or events from dozens or hundreds of aggregated news sites at one time. It is a "pull" rather than a "push" technology.
RSS and XMLRSS defines an XML grammar (a set of HTML-like tags) for sharing news. Each RSS text file contains both static information about your site, plus dynamic information about your new stories, all surrounded by matching start and end tags. Each story is defined by an <item> tag, which contains a headline TITLE, URL, and DESCRIPTION.
Public homepage
Title and sourceDescription
Internal navigation (“Categories”) News items Stories
Archive
External links
Features of the working homepage
Publishing tool links
Composing and editing screen
RadioLand links
Categories selector
Posting a news item
Steps:1. Enter content2. Edit, add local information3. Assign to category4. Post
•Compose manually-just type in text•Cut-and-paste from other sources•Post from RSS news feed
Posting an RSS-fed itemStep 1: look through aggregator, select item
Radio's news aggregator automatically reads news feeds you're subscribed to and posts the headlines to a single page.
Commentaries (or Stories)
The title of each story is a link to the story. Also listed is the date the story was created.
Blogger
Radio UserLand
Movable Type
$40 a year, includes 40 mb server spaceFiles reside on your machine, upstream to hosting serverAllows posting by e-mailAllows posting picturesReceives and broadcasts RSS news feeds
Free serviceWeb-based text entryNo RSS capabilities
Free to individuals and nonprofitsLess user-friendly for novices – requires some programming skills (Perl-based)XML-based templatesNo RSS capabilities
Plug-ins and Desktop Clients
Plug-insThemeTool by evectors that lets you easily edit your Radio based weblog's theme using your favorite WYSIWYG html editor, including Macromedia Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive. RssDistiller extracts RSS feeds from most html pages, letting you be always updated without leaving your personal news aggregator.A desktop client is an application that resides on your computer and allows you to view and send email. Radioland’s news2mail automatically sends email messages containing the most recent stories from the channels you've subscribed to. Messages can be sent in either or both of two formats, Batch or Individual.
Blogs and library outreach
Blogs can be an easy way to harvest and publish news content relevant to your patron community.
Blogs allow for painless Web-posting of timely commentary and information.
Blogs can help build community through comment dialogue and persistent news archiving.
End of presentationLincoln Cushing