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really simple syndication
Also known as an RSS feed, this tool will help you use your time online wisely. Pick favorite bloggers, news sites, lists, or anything else on the internet and file its “feed” so you can read when you have the time. Preview posts so you don’t have to check every site every day—all your favorite sites send content to one place—your place!
An “aggregator” is a fun little tool that will collect the newest posts from all your favorite blogs or news sites. By using an aggregator, you’ll save yourself time because you won’t have to go visit a lot of Web sites. You’ll have all the latest information right there on one page! It’s also called “syndication” because it allows the content to be lifted from its original context and exported into new juxtapositions by the user. Bloglines.com is an example of an aggregator.
Graphic explanation from Back in Skinny Jeans
The aggregator (or reader, as they are also called) updates your page whenever the pages you have subscribed to have new posts. To subscribe to a page's "feed," use the “RSS” or “Atom” buttons on the originating site. Examples of these buttons are to the right.
WHY RSS? It makes your life easier! Just one example: an aggregator is a great way for students to quickly skim current events from newspapers, or to compare and contrast reporting on same or similar events from different sources. For example, students can get the daily headlines from a variety of news sources around the world without having to locate a physical newspaper!
Getting your own news from RSS feeds couldn’t be simpler. You’ll find that you can get many times more reading done when you’re filtering out uninteresting articles and only visiting one site instead of many individual ones.
A great feature of many sites is that they separate feeds by topic. For example, I subscribe to the New York Times' Education page and the Most Emailed Articles feed so that I get the highlights that are most important to me... and not the entire paper ;) Blogs sometimes let you subscribe to the comments section, so you can follow a conversation. And best of all - some readers allow you to import an email listserv into your reader so that your inbox isn't so cluttered! RSS feeds are very useful and new ways to use them are being discovered every day.
Share with others, too!
In most cases you can share the "public" side of your reader with others through a special URL, which makes it fun to discover what your friends and colleagues are reading. For ease of use, I find it easier to simply set some selected feeds to “private,” so that they don’t show up in my reader to other viewers. You can also establish two different accounts if you'd prefer.
Setting up a Bloglines.com account:
You will need to create a username/password and provide an e-mail address to set up a free Bloglines.com account. Once you have created your account you can start adding your favorite feeds to your page. Want a different reader? Try any on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feed_aggregators#Web_based
Also known as an RSS feed, this tool will help you use your time online wisely. Pick favorite bloggers, news sites, lists, or anything else on the internet and file its “feed” so you can read when you have the time. Preview posts so you don’t have to check every site every day—all your favorite sites send content to one place—your place!
An “aggregator” is a fun little tool that will collect the newest posts from all your favorite blogs or news sites. By using an aggregator, you’ll save yourself time because you won’t have to go visit a lot of Web sites. You’ll have all the latest information right there on one page! It’s also called “syndication” because it allows the content to be lifted from its original context and exported into new juxtapositions by the user. Bloglines.com is an example of an aggregator.
Graphic explanation from Back in Skinny Jeans
The aggregator (or reader, as they are also called) updates your page whenever the pages you have subscribed to have new posts. To subscribe to a page's "feed," use the “RSS” or “Atom” buttons on the originating site. Examples of these buttons are to the right.
WHY RSS? It makes your life easier! Just one example: an aggregator is a great way for students to quickly skim current events from newspapers, or to compare and contrast reporting on same or similar events from different sources. For example, students can get the daily headlines from a variety of news sources around the world without having to locate a physical newspaper!
Getting your own news from RSS feeds couldn’t be simpler. You’ll find that you can get many times more reading done when you’re filtering out uninteresting articles and only visiting one site instead of many individual ones.
A great feature of many sites is that they separate feeds by topic. For example, I subscribe to the New York Times' Education page and the Most Emailed Articles feed so that I get the highlights that are most important to me... and not the entire paper ;) Blogs sometimes let you subscribe to the comments section, so you can follow a conversation. And best of all - some readers allow you to import an email listserv into your reader so that your inbox isn't so cluttered! RSS feeds are very useful and new ways to use them are being discovered every day.
Share with others, too!
In most cases you can share the "public" side of your reader with others through a special URL, which makes it fun to discover what your friends and colleagues are reading. For ease of use, I find it easier to simply set some selected feeds to “private,” so that they don’t show up in my reader to other viewers. You can also establish two different accounts if you'd prefer.
Setting up a Bloglines.com account:
You will need to create a username/password and provide an e-mail address to set up a free Bloglines.com account. Once you have created your account you can start adding your favorite feeds to your page. Want a different reader? Try any on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feed_aggregators#Web_based
