1. Skills: subscribe to feeds, read feeds Concepts: RSS feed, polling vs. publish-subscribe, stand-alone vs. Web based reader, podcast, event stream This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. RSS – real simple syndication

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications (RSS) – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

3. Start by watching this video Short video on RSS

4. Just checking for new stuff. … Is there anything new? … Any new stuff? … Anything new? … What’s new? … Got anything new for me? Polling Automatic delivery or notification of new information. Subscription

5. Two ways to subscribe New items are periodically downloaded to your RSS reader. You receive an email whenever a new item is posted.

6. Stand-alone and networked RSS readers A stand-alone RSS reader (Podcasts) A networked RSS reader (Blogs)

7. Podcasts

8. Finding podcasts National Public Radio TWIT TV IT Conversations Apple iTunes

9. iTunes store comedy podcasts

10. RSS is not just for blogs and podcasts

11. Summary

12. Self-study questions 1.There are two kinds of RSS readers, what are they? 2.What is the difference between polling and subscription? 3.Do any of the IT podcasts at TWIT TV or IT Conversations sound interesting to you? 4.Do any of the general interest podcasts at National Public Radio sound interesting to you? 5.Are there other podcast directories? 6.We listed several examples RSS event stream feeds. Can you think of others? 7.Find something other than a podcast or blog that you can subscribe to on the Web.

13. Commoncraft video on RSS: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english Amazon Web services status dashboard: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ IT Conversations: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3528.html This Week in Tech: http://twit.tv/ National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=topic Apple iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Free RSS readers: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-rss-reader-aggregator.htm Resources