Pushing

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Pushing Pulling Information Using RSS Feeds

• Teri M. VogelLauc-B 2007 ConferenceNovember 2,
  2007http//tmvogel.googlepages.com/lauc-b

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RSS within 2.0 Landscape

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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)

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RSS Feed Basics

• aka feeds, web feeds, newsfeeds, etc.
• specifications 1.0, 2.0, ATOM...
• .xml, .rss, .rdf
• Really Simple Syndication
• XML file thats a syndication of website content
• Site gets updated...file gets updated
• XML usually not read unaided

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RSS Feed Basics

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

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Information Flow
Checking for Updates
Blogs News Sites Databases E-Journals
/E-Magazines ??????
YOU
E-Mail Alerting
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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
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You RSS Reader

• 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

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Demo 1 Bloglines
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PULL RSS Feeds - Bloglines

• Login
• Copy feed (URL)
• Click add/subscribe
• Paste feed
• Subscribe

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Exercise 1 Bloglines
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Demo 2 Google Reader
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PULL RSS Feeds Google Reader

• Click or or enter feed URL
• Select subscription option (Google)
• ? Always use Google to subscribe to feeds
• or
• Subscribed

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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

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Types of Readers

• Web
• Bloglines, Netvibes, Google, My Yahoo
• Desktop
• Feed Demon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator/Outlook
• Browser
• Safari
• Firefox Live Bookmarks, Sage
• IE Favorites

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Demo 3 Netvibes
Exercise 2 Netvibes
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RSS Pull Technology

• Advantages (KM)
• Concentrates INFORMATION
• Current awareness/alerting
• Customizable (newspaper)
• Saves time

• Challenges
• Need to use the information
• Dont go overboard with feeds

Easier to Manage Information
Add More Feeds
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Looking for RSS Feeds?

• Directories
• Search engines
• General
• RSS-specific

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RSS in Web 2.0 Apps

• Blogs
• Entries/comments
• Subscribe buttons
• Feedburner
• Statistics
• Wikis
• Updates

• Folksonomies
• User or Tag
• Podcasts
• RSS feeds w/ MP3s
• Reader or iTunes

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RSS News

• Magazines
• News Print, TV, Radio, Wires
• News Searches
• Google, Yahoo, Moreover

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RSS New Book Lists

• UCLA
• Case Western
• MIT
• NC State

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RSS Databases

• PubMed
• Ei Village 2 (Compendex, Inspec)
• Web of Science
• Gale
• Ebsco
• Astrophysics Data System
• OvidSP

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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

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PUSHING RSS Feeds

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

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RSS ? JavaScript
BLOG
JavaScript
WEBPAGE
WEBPAGE with HEADLINES
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Converting RSS

• Run RSS feed through RSS?JS service paste
  JavaScript block to website
• Feed2js
• RSS-to-Javascript.com
• Widgets Applications
• LibraryThing
• Netvibes
• iGoogle

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

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Demo 5 Yahoo Pipes
Exercise 4 Feedblendr.com
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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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