What is RSS Terms you associate with RSS

What is RSS?

Terms you associate with RSS § News / Information § Updating § Work § Acronyms § Technology § Complicated

RSS essence § News items § Web § Updates With RSS, you can “subscribe” to many RSS feeds of headlines from different websites, and get “fed” all the new headlines from all of these sites in one integrated list, and quickly see what’s what. The place where your integrated list is created is called an RSS Reader, and it gathers all the headlines from all the sites you have subscribed to.

But what is it? § A regularly updated file of news items § In a structured format § Stored on a website § RSS readers (software) regularly poll the file to get new versions § RSS readers display new items as updates

RSS Reader RSS Feeds Influenza news 6 th June – Bird flu … http: //www. . 5 th June – New plans. . . http: //www. . . 6 th June – Bird flu … [FLU] http: //www. . 6 th June – TB outbreak …[TB] http: //www. . 6 th June – New research. [MAL] http: //www. . 5 th June – New plans. . . [FLU] http: //www. . . 4 th June – Parasite … [MAL] http: //www. . . 4 th June – New drug … [TB] http: //www. . Tuberculosis news 6 th June – TB outbreak … http: //www. . 4 th June – New drug … http: //www. . Malaria news 6 th June – New research. http: //www. . 4 th June – Parasite … http: //www. . .

Structure <? xml version="1. 0" encoding="UTF-8" ? > <rss version="2. 0"> <channel> <title>Intellectual property and innovation</title> <description>Intellectual property as it relates to biomedical science…</description> <link>http: //nimri. nimr. mrc. ac. uk/rss</link> <docs>http: //blogs. law. harvard. edu/tech/rss</docs> <last. Build. Date>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08: 51: 18 +0100</last. Build. Date> <pub. Date>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08: 50: 16 +0100</pub. Date> <generator>Feed. For. All v 2. 0 (2. 0. 1. 4) http: //www. feedforall. com</generator> <item> <title>EU Presidency report sets out 'bio-economy' vision (pdf)</title> <description>The German Presidency has put forward a declaration. </description> <link>http: //www. europabio. be/articles/cologne_paper. pdf</link> <guid is. Perma. Link="false">C 0579 EDE-9 F 10 -4 EC 9 -8822 -DFBAD 90881 FF</guid> <pub. Date>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08: 50: 16 +0100</pub. Date> </item> </channel> </rss>

Presentation § Raw code – yuk! § To make it look nice you need a reader § Or a feed that has styling integral to it