Mark Frydenberg

Computer Information Systems Department

Concepts

XML Mark Up Language HTML

RSS Feeds RSS Feed Aggregator “Publish/Subscribe”

Podcasting Episode vs. Series Enclosure

What icon to use?

More Than You Need to KnowAbout XML

eXtensible Markup Language XML is designed to describe data Unlike HTML, XML tags are not predefined XML is structured text that represents

information You might display XML data using HTML

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp

How is XML different from HTML ?

What’s the difference?

HTML

is about displaying information

XML

is about describing information

XML Format for syndicating content (not presentation)

Subscribers sign up to receive the feed

Aggregators check RSS feeds and display new items from them so you don’t have to

indicates an RSS Feed

Integrated in Firefox, IE 7 SharpReader for PC

Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication

RSS Aggregators/Readers

Present news content from other sources in web sites or with RSS Readers

Windows XP SharpReader MyYahoo Firefox Live

Bookmarks

Firefox Live Bookmarks

RSS and Internet Explorer 7

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/tour/rss/

Podcasting 2001 – Dave Winer

syndicates a Greatful Dead song on his web log

2004 - Podcasting emerges as a mainstream RSS application

2005 - Podcasting is Word of the Year (Oxford)

2006 - Everybody’s doing it

Podcasts are RSS feeds with enclosures.

You don’t need an iPod to subscribe to podcasts

You can subscribe or create podcasts with a PC or Pocket PC or SmartPhone

Find an aggregator and Media Player

Podcasting

Podcasting Behind the Scenes

What’s Happening

Multimedia Server(it.bentley.edu)

FTP MultimediaLooks forChanges

feed.xml

Post LinkLooks forChanges

GeneratesXML

GeneratesSpeech To Text Index

AccessesFile On MultimediaServer

AccessesFile On MultimediaServer

Subscribe in iTunes

Advanced Subscribe to Podcast

Right Click and select Update Podcast to update

Play in iTunes

Video Podcasts

http://www.vintagetooncast.com/ RSS Feed: http://tooncast.libsyn.com/rss

Mr. Excel’s Podcast

http://feeds.feedburner.com/LearnExcelFromMrexcelPodcast

2-minute daily Excel lesson Instructions

Other Podcast Sources

Yahoo! Podcasts iTunes iPodder.com odeo.com Podcasting.net Podcastdirectory.com