1. What is RSS?

2. Terms you associate with RSS  News / Information  Updating  Work  Acronyms  Technology  Complicated

3. RSS essence  News items  Web  Updates With RSS, you can “subscribe” to many RSS feeds of headlines from different websites, and get “fed” all the new headlines from all of these sites in one integrated list, and quickly see what’s what. The place where your integrated list is created is called an RSS Reader, and it gathers all the headlines from all the sites you have subscribed to.

4. But what is it?  A regularly updated file of news items  In a structured format  Stored on a website  RSS readers (software) regularly poll the file to get new versions  RSS readers display new items as updates

5. Influenza news 6 th June – Bird flu … http://www.... 5 th June – New plans... http://www..... Tuberculosis news 6 th June – TB outbreak … http://www.... 4 th June – New drug … http://www.... Malaria news 6 th June – New research. http://www.... 4 th June – Parasite … http://www..... RSS Feeds 6th June – Bird flu … [FLU] http://www.... 6th June – TB outbreak …[TB] http://www.... 6th June – New research. [MAL] http://www.... 5th June – New plans... [FLU] http://www..... 4th June – Parasite … [MAL] http://www..... 4th June – New drug … [TB] http://www.... RSS Reader

6. Structure Intellectual property and innovation Intellectual property as it relates to biomedical science… http://nimri.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/rss http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:51:18 +0100 Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:50:16 +0100 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.4) http://www.feedforall.com EU Presidency report sets out 'bio-economy' vision (pdf) The German Presidency has put forward a declaration. http://www.europabio.be/articles/cologne_paper.pdf C0579EDE-9F10-4EC9-8822-DFBAD90881FF Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:50:16 +0100

7. Presentation  Raw code – yuk!  To make it look nice you need a reader  Or a feed that has styling integral to it