Explaining RSS Feeds
If you know of a Web resource that does a really good job of explaining what an RSS feed is and/or how it can be used or if you know of any great tools for reading/aggregating/creating/whatever RSS feeds, please let me know. I’ve been asked about RSS feeds by many of my colleagues lately and would like to put something together for them that explains what they are, why they may want to use them, and what kinds of tools related to RSS feeds there are. Bonus points if you know of or are a news librarian who uses RSS feeds in the context of a job. Comment below or contact me. Grazia.
Someone just faxed me a copy of The Information Advisor’s “Leading Business-Focused News Alert Services” article from the November 2003 issue, which covers RSS feeds. What I’ve read of it so far is good.
Addenda 12/5: Links for an RSS Primer from Info Commons
RSS Tutorial from the Free Range Librarian
12/9: Scott Rosenberg’s RSS piece in Salon
12/12: The ResourceShelf points to some material explaining RSS.
1/22: RSS 2.0 Specification
November 24th, 2003 at 4:04 pm
Free Range Librarian: Getting Started with RSS: The No-Brainer Method
http://frl.bluehighways.com/frlarchives/000123.html (thanks Library Stuff)
NetNewsWireLite for the Mac (freeware), also a pro version from http://www.ranchero.com
RSS Readers: Bringing the World to Your Desktop (6 apps are reviewed http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,39…
Wired News: Aggregators Attack Info Overload Is there a news aggregator in your near-future? Wired examines some of the better-known applications for sorting through the morass of news feeds and web logs. (Source: beSpacific)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60053,00.html
HTH
January 22nd, 2004 at 5:58 pm
I just came across this site that has a couple of recent posts dealing with rss:
http://www.elise.com/mt/