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Pushing & Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds

Pushing & Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds. Teri M. Vogel Lauc -B 2007 Conference November 2, 2007 http://tmvogel.googlepages.com/lauc-b . http://kosmar.de/wp-content/web20map.png. http://www.railsonwave.com/assets/2006/12/25/Web_2.0_Map.svg.

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Pushing & Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds

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  1. Pushing & Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds Teri M. VogelLauc-B 2007 ConferenceNovember 2, 2007http://tmvogel.googlepages.com/lauc-b

  2. http://kosmar.de/wp-content/web20map.png

  3. http://www.railsonwave.com/assets/2006/12/25/Web_2.0_Map.svg

  4. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2

  5. RSS within 2.0 Landscape • Notification – Syndication – Glue Connects Applications http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/rss_is_the_web_20_pipe.htm

  6. 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+)

  7. 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

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

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

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

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

  12. Demo #1: Bloglines

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

  14. Exercise #1: Bloglines

  15. Demo #2: Google Reader

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

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

  18. Types of Readers • Web • Bloglines, Netvibes, Google, My Yahoo • Desktop • Feed Demon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator/Outlook • Browser • Safari • Firefox: Live Bookmarks, Sage • IE: Favorites

  19. Demo #3: Netvibes Exercise #2: Netvibes

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

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

  22. Blogs Entries/comments ‘Subscribe’ buttons Feedburner Statistics Wikis Updates RSS in Web 2.0 Apps • Folksonomies • User or Tag • Podcasts • RSS feeds w/ MP3s • Reader or iTunes

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

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

  25. RSS & Databases • PubMed • Ei Village 2 (Compendex, Inspec) • Web of Science • Gale • Ebsco • Astrophysics Data System • OvidSP

  26. 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

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

  28. RSS  JavaScript RSSJS BLOG JavaScript WEBPAGE WEBPAGE with HEADLINES

  29. Converting RSS • Run RSS feed through RSSJS service; paste JavaScript block to website • Feed2js • RSS-to-Javascript.com • Widgets & Applications • LibraryThing • Netvibes • iGoogle

  30. Demo #4: Feed2JS Exercise #3: Feed2JS or RSS-to-Javascript.com

  31. 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

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

  33. RSS within “3.0” Landscape • A Web 3.0 Driver • “The transportable web” • User-defined aggregators • Mashups/widgetizing • Invisible and everywhere • Netvibes, iGoogle, Facebook, Yahoo Pipes

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