Pushing Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds Teri M

Pushing & Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds Teri M. Vogel Lauc-B 2007 Conference November 2, 2007 http: //tmvogel. googlepages. com/lauc-b

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RSS within 2. 0 Landscape • Notification – Syndication – Glue ts c e n n o ns C o i t ca i l p Ap http: //web 2. socialcomputingmagazine. com/rss_is_the_web_20_pipe. htm

What RSS is. . . What it does • Way to keep up with new blog postings w/o 1) checking blogs over and over, or 2) using e-mail alerts. (2003 -2004) • Way to keep up with new/updated content on many websites (2. 0 & otherwise) w/o checking. . . . and to repackage or redistribute that content for using elsewhere. (2007+)

RSS Feed Basics • aka feeds, web feeds, newsfeeds, etc. • specifications: 1. 0, 2. 0, ATOM. . . –. xml, . rss, . rdf • Really Simple Syndication • XML file that’s a syndication of website content – Site gets updated. . . file gets updated – XML – usually not read unaided

RSS Feed Basics • No standard to identify RSS-enabled sites – Text, graphical cues – Autodiscovery: IE, Firefox, Safari • To Read Feeds? ? – RSS READER (AGGREGATOR)

Information Flow Checking for Updates Blogs News Sites Databases YOU E-Journals / E-Magazines ? ? ? E-Mail Alerting

Information Flow w/ RSS New feed content pulled back into reader http: // RSS Reader “pings” to check if feed (page/site) has been updated) YOU Titles | Dates | Links Authors | Content

You + RSS Reader YOU RSS READER • Select [subscribe] RSS • Checks website [feed] feeds for fresh content • Read what you want, • Pulls in new content – save, clip, e-mail items – organize feeds – de-select [unsubscribe] feeds with a click – Title, date stamp, link to full article – All-some-none of the article – Readable, automated

Demo #1: Bloglines

PULL RSS Feeds - Bloglines • • • Login Copy feed (URL) Click add/subscribe Paste feed Subscribe

Exercise #1: Bloglines

Demo #2: Google Reader

PULL RSS Feeds – Google Reader • Click or or enter feed URL • Select subscription option (Google) – Always use Google to subscribe to feeds • • Subscribed or

Making Your Reader Public • Bloglines URL – http: //www. bloglines. com/public/tmvogel • Google Reader – Shared items (public) – Share starred and/or tagged items 1. view public page 2. add a clip to your site

Types of Readers • Web – Bloglines, Netvibes, Google, My Yahoo • Desktop – Feed Demon, Net. News. Wire, News. Gator/Outlook • Browser – Safari – Firefox: Live Bookmarks, Sage – IE: Favorites

Demo #3: Netvibes Exercise #2: Netvibes

RSS – Pull Technology Advantages (KM) • Concentrates INFORMATION • Current awareness/alerting – Customizable (“newspaper”) • Saves time Challenges n Need to use the information n Don’t go overboard with feeds Easier to Manage Information Add More Feeds

Looking for RSS Feeds? • Directories • Search engines – General – RSS-specific

RSS in Web 2. 0 Apps • Blogs – Entries/comments – ‘Subscribe’ buttons – Feedburner • Statistics • Wikis – Updates • Folksonomies – User or Tag • Podcasts – RSS feeds w/ MP 3 s – Reader or i. Tunes

RSS + News • Magazines • News: Print, TV, Radio, Wires • News Searches – Google, Yahoo, Moreover

RSS + New Book Lists • • UCLA Case Western MIT NC State

RSS & Databases • • Pub. Med Ei Village 2 (Compendex, Inspec) Web of Science Gale Ebsco Astrophysics Data System Ovid. SP

RSS & E-Journals • Most Publishers – TOC and article-based • Feeds by Topic (AIP) • Dynamic Searches – Scitation (AIP, ASA, ASME, ASCE, ECS, IET, SPIE) – Science Direct

PUSHING RSS Feeds • R in RSS = remix, repackage, redistribute, repurpose • Using RSS to display/push information from one website to another – Dynamically updated content

RSS Java. Script BLOG WEBPAGE RSS JS WEBPAGE with HEADLINES

Converting RSS • Run RSS feed through RSS JS service; paste Java. Script block to website • • Feed 2 js RSS-to-Javascript. com • Widgets & Applications • • • Library. Thing Netvibes i. Google

Demo #4: Feed 2 JS Exercise #3: Feed 2 JS or RSS-to-Javascript. com

Remixing Feeds • Yahoo Pipes – Aggregates multiple feeds into single feed • Create your own feeds • Remix feeds & search engines, customize • private or publish • Feedblendr. com – Aggregates multiple feeds into single feed • Create your own feeds

Demo #5: Yahoo Pipes Exercise #4: Feedblendr. com

RSS within “ 3. 0” Landscape • A Web 3. 0 Driver – “The transportable web” – User-defined aggregators – Mashups/widgetizing – Invisible and everywhere – Netvibes, i. Google, Facebook, Yahoo Pipes