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In which Robin Good graciously shows Vance Stevens how to NEWSMASTER using http://www.syndicaat.com. A recording was made in Camtasia but audio was distorted, so Vance made this slide show taken from screen shots at critical junctures
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04/10/23 Robin Good explains Syndicaat to Vance Stevens
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Robin Good explainshttp://www.mysyndicaat.com
To Vance Stevenson June 3, 2007
Camtasia voice recording corruptedbut GoToMyPC screen shots preserved
from which these slides were made
04/10/23 Robin Good explains Syndicaat to Vance Stevens
2We start at http://www.mysyndicaat.com
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Robin logs in …
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We’ll create a new Feedbot
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We give it a name and click on Feed Properties: Edit
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We need to set some advanced features first
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The advanced features sub-window opens …
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Robin says it works best with 4-word titles (in his experience with this program)
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He also enabled digests (for Newsmastering at a later stage)
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Click Next to move on …
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We’re about to add a subscription to our feedbot but first we need to find a feed
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We conduct a Technorati search at http://www.technorati.com . This is an advanced search feature now in Technorati.
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We have some results and click on View all to expand the list
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Here we find the feed link and copy it to the clipboard
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The feed link is pasted in the URL address and there is an option to Test it
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Here’s the result of the test, so we can see it works fine.
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Click OK to proceed …
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The subscription is listed as one of the feeds in our current feedbot
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We’ll add a second subscription now
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We’re ready to subscribe to a new feed but we need to find one first
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We try a news feed from Yahoo
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There are no results but there could be hits here later.So we copy the feed URL to use it in our feedbot.
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The new feed is pasted to the URL Address, and we click OK.
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We see here that the second feed has been added
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We search http://del.icio.us/tag/wiaoc and find that the page has an RSS feed
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With the feed link in the clipboard, we create a third feed subscription
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The feed is added. We click OK.
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As in the other cases, the feed appears as a subscription in our feedbot.
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Robin suggests we try http://www.digg.com/But there are no results in this case We didn’t take the time to add it but would have normally
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Robin shows me how we can add feeds from blogs where we think the tag might appear – here we have selected http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/ and right clicked on its feed.
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We prepare to add this to our list of feeds
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Only in this case, we’re going to filter the output for only the search term we wish to aggregate.
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We select Filter Posts, and then Edit …
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We enter the search term and decide to search only in the past two months.According to Robin, this is an absolute time, fixed on the date the filter was created.
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We click OK twice to accept the filter and the update to our feedbot, and see that thesubscription is again listed (as a filtered one).
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Yet another possibility is to use http://blogsearch.google.com, and this in turnproduces an RSS feed which can also be subscribed to.
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It’s time to save our work
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Having saved this, we can find it in our list of feedbots
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We can also use content from a CMS, such as http://www.webheadsinaction.org
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We can View Posts to see what the feedbot is has pulled in so far
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The list of feeds harvested is already a long one
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The Syndicaat output itself produces an XML (RSS) feed, whose URL can also be copied
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This URL can be shared. You can subscribe to this feed in your bloglines or whichever aggregator you use.
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There are more ways you can use this feed. We can find out about them if were-visit the advanced features.
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First we need to turn on the HTML Rendering Options, and click on How To
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Here we see many ways how this feed can be embedded in a blog or web page.
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and some further options …
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Robin was particularly excited about the Newsmastering capabilities of this application. I was about to learn why we had enabled digests at the outset.
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In the feed viewer, individual items can be selected to be included in the digest or not.
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To publish the digest, you click on the button with the finger on it …
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Then the Update Digest option appears.
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You can refresh the subscription check here
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Finally, Robin showed me how Newsmastering could be fine tuned by editing theway each digest selected would appear in the feed produced.
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Edit the title for example …
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… or the author name
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Save … You can find out more about newsmastering by following this link.
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When your changes don’t appear you should Refresh Viewer, where the finger is pointing.
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And there it is!
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And thank you Robin
For an amazing keynote athttp://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007 and for taking the time to show us how
to aggregate effectively
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