RSS Feeds Blogs and Podcasts Mark Branom IT
RSS Feeds, Blogs, and Podcasts Mark Branom, IT Services Tech Briefing http: //techbriefing. stanford. edu/ June 8, 2007 STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Using RSS § RSS in plain english: • http: //www. commoncraft. com/rss_plain_english § Some Online RSS readers: • www. google. com/reader • www. bloglines. com • www. newsgator. com § Some Offline RSS readers: • • www. getfirefox. com www. getthunderbird. com www. feedreader. com www. rssreader. com STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Creating RSS Feeds <? xml version="1. 0"? > <rss version="2. 0"> <channel> <title>Title of Feed Goes Here</title> <description>Description of Feed Goes Here</description> <link>Link to the Feed Goes Here</link> <item> <title>Title of Item 1 Goes Here</title> <description>Description of Item 1 Goes Here</description> <link>Link to Item 1 Goes Here</link> </item> <title>Title of Item 2 Goes Here</title> <description>Description of Item 2 Goes Here</description> <link>Link to Item 2 Goes Here</link> </item> </channel> </rss> STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Creating an Atom Feed <? xml version="1. 0"? > <feed xmlns="http: //www. w 3. org/2005/Atom"> <title>Title of Feed Goes Here</title> <subtitle>Sub. Title of Feed Goes Here</subtitle> <link href="http: //Link. To. The. Feed. Goes. Here"/> <updated>Today's Date</updated> <author> <name>Author's Full Name</name> <email>Author's Email</email> </author> <id>Identifying information For the Feed Goes Here</id> <entry> <title>Item 1 Title Goes Here</title> <link href="http: //Item 1 Link. Goes. Here"/> <id>Item 1's ID Goes Here</id> <updated>Item 1's Updated Date Goes Here</updated> <summary>Summary Text Goes Here</summary> </entry> <title>Item 2 Title Goes Here</title> <link href="http: //Item 2 Link. Goes. Here"/> <id>Item 2's ID Goes Here</id> <updated>Item 2's Updated Date Goes Here</updated> <summary>Summary Text Goes Here</summary> </entry> </feed> STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Some RSS Examples § CNN’s Top Stories: http: //rss. cnn. com/rss/cnn_topstories. rss § NY Times: http: //nytimes. com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Home. Page. xml § Stanford Events: http: //events. stanford. edu/xml/rss. xml § Stanford Daily: http: //daily. stanford. edu/xml/rss 2 STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Submitting RSS Feeds § Doing it yourself… Yahoo MSN Search Fyber Search Bulk Feeds Truth Laid Bear Moreover Blog Street Memigo Feeds Farm Blogarama News Knowledge Blog Wise News Trove Every Feed Blog SE Syndic 8 Boing RSS Clipping Fastbuzz Eatonweb Newsmob 2 RSS Feedster Search 4 RSS Anse Sourceforge Blog Digger Day Pop Feed-Directory Sarthak Bloggernity Bloogz Technorati News Is Free Rocket Info Genecast Easy RSS Postami Topix Headline Spot Blogdex Feed Directory Pub Sub Blog Tree Findory Blog Catalog Step Newz We. Blog. ALot News Goblin News Feedplex Popdex Newzfire Read A Blog Pulse Press Radar Rub Hub Feed 24 Feeds. For. All Blog Map Weblogs Feed Burner Blo. gs Blog. Rolling Technorati News. Gator Pingomatic RSS Network Plazoo Feedzie Feed Cat Feed Miner Ice Rocket Sphere Moz Dex Uncle Feed Pluck RSS Locator News Net Plus Focus Look Blog Bunch Blogtastic Explore Blogs Feed Pub Feeds 2 Read RSS Directory House Of Blogs RSS Mad Blog Resource Feed Burner All Feeds Content Desk Feed See Blog Watch 4 Guys. From. Rolla Gnoos Octora RSSMicro Feedooyoo Golden Feed RSS-Feeds-Sub Readafeed Feedage Rorseek RSS Junky Feed Fury News on Feeds STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Submitting RSS Feeds § Using a service • http: //www. submitrssfeed. com/ • http: //www. feedsubmitter. com/ • http: //www. dummysoftware. com/rsssubmit. html • http: //allrss. com/rsssubmission. html STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Linking Your Web Page to Your RSS Feed § Option 1: with a regular link, usually using the orange RSS icon: <a href="linktomyrssfeed. xml"><img src="rss. gif" alt="RSS" /></a> § Option 2: by linking your web page using the <link> tag (in the <head> of your document) <head> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Title for Your Feed" href="linktomyrssfeed. xml" /> STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Resources § en. wikipedia. org/wiki/RSS § en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Atom_(standard) § www. rss-specifications. com/creating-rss-feeds. htm § searchenginewatch. com/show. Page. html? page=2175271 STANFORD UNIVERSITY • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
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