1. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES RSS Feeds, Blogs, and Podcasts Mark Branom, IT Services Tech Briefing http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/ June 8, 2007

2. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Using RSS  RSS in plain english: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english  Some Online RSS readers: www.google.com/reader www.bloglines.com www.newsgator.com  Some Offline RSS readers: www.getfirefox.com www.getthunderbird.com www.feedreader.com www.rssreader.com

3. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Creating RSS Feeds Title of Feed Goes Here Description of Feed Goes Here Link to the Feed Goes Here Title of Item 1 Goes Here Description of Item 1 Goes Here Link to Item 1 Goes Here Title of Item 2 Goes Here Description of Item 2 Goes Here Link to Item 2 Goes Here

4. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Creating an Atom Feed Title of Feed Goes Here SubTitle of Feed Goes Here Today's Date Author's Full Name Author's Email Identifying information For the Feed Goes Here Item 1 Title Goes Here Item 1's ID Goes Here Item 1's Updated Date Goes Here Summary Text Goes Here Item 2 Title Goes Here Item 2's ID Goes Here Item 2's Updated Date Goes Here Summary Text Goes Here

5. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Some RSS Examples  CNN’s Top Stories: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss  NY Times: http://nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml http://nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml  Stanford Events: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/rss.xml http://events.stanford.edu/xml/rss.xml  Stanford Daily: http://daily.stanford.edu/xml/rss2 http://daily.stanford.edu/xml/rss2

6. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Submitting RSS Feeds  Doing it yourself… YahooMSN SearchFyber SearchBulk FeedsTruth Laid Bear MoreoverBlog StreetMemigoFeeds FarmBlogarama News KnowledgeBlog WiseNews TroveEvery FeedBlog SE Syndic8Boing RSS ClippingFastbuzzEatonweb Newsmob2RSSFeedsterSearch4RSSAnse SourceforgeBlog DiggerDay PopFeed-DirectorySarthak Blog BloggernityBloogzTechnoratiNews Is FreeRocket Info GenecastEasy RSSPostamiTopixHeadline Spot BlogdexFeed DirectoryPub SubBlog TreeFindory Blog CatalogStep NewzWeBlogALotNews GoblinNews Feeds FeedplexPopdex NewzfireRead A BlogBlog Pulse Press RadarRub HubFeed 24FeedsForAll Blog Map WeblogsFeed BurnerBlo.gsBlogRollingTechnorati NewsGatorPingomaticRSS NetworkPlazooFeedzie Feed CatFeed MinerIce RocketSphereMoz Dex Uncle FeedPluckRSS LocatorNews Net PlusFocus Look Blog BunchBlogtasticExplore BlogsFeed PubFeeds2Read RSS DirectoryHouse Of BlogsRSS MadBlog ResourceFeed Burner All FeedsContent DeskFeed SeeBlog Watch4GuysFromRolla GnoosOctoraRSSMicroFeedooyooGolden Feed RSS-Feeds-SubReadafeedFeedageRorseekRSS Junky Feed FuryNews on Feeds

7. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Submitting RSS Feeds  Using a service http://www.submitrssfeed.com/ http://www.feedsubmitter.com/ http://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html http://allrss.com/rsssubmission.html

8. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Linking Your Web Page to Your RSS Feed  Option 1: with a regular link, usually using the orange RSS icon:  Option 2: by linking your web page using the tag (in the of your document)

9. STANFORD UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Resources  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)  www.rss-specifications.com/creating-rss-feeds.htm www.rss-specifications.com/creating-rss-feeds.htm  searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271 searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271