Bob Stepno’s Red Liner

College information offices are beginning to offer RSS feeds, according to an article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education. The full text may be available only to subscribers, but it mentions RSS projects at Carleton College, Pacific University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University, and the University of Nevada at Reno.

Rochester uses RSS to offer campus news feeds to students’ personal pages on the school’s Web portal. Carleton students can get campus event and movie listings by RSS. TAMU’s Texas Agricultural Experiment Station puts out news releases and reports on everything from cattle research to crop-seed varieties.

The article (Vol 50, No. 23, Page A23) doesn’t mention Harvard or the RSS 2.0 “Really Simple Syndication” standard that Dave Winer transferred to the university’s Berkman Center last year.

Sources of RSS software and information suggested in the article:
http://www.prweb.com/rss.php
http://www.2rss.com/software.php

http://syndication.iop.org/about/software.cfm

Related: My last scribbling about RSS.

PM Update: J has added a detailed critique of the Chronicle article.

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