RSS Feeds, Blogs, and Podcasts

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RSS Feeds, Blogs, and Podcasts

Mark Branom, IT Services

Tech Briefing

http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/

June 8, 2007


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


Creating RSS Feeds

<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel> <title>Title of Feed Goes Here</title> <description>Description of Feed Goes Here</description> <link>Link to the Feed Goes Here</link>

<item> <title>Title of Item 1 Goes Here</title> <description>Description of Item 1 Goes Here</description> <link>Link to Item 1 Goes Here</link> </item>

<item> <title>Title of Item 2 Goes Here</title> <description>Description of Item 2 Goes Here</description> <link>Link to Item 2 Goes Here</link> </item></channel></rss>


Creating an Atom Feed<?xml version="1.0"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Title of Feed Goes Here</title> <subtitle>SubTitle of Feed Goes Here</subtitle> <link href="http://LinkToTheFeedGoesHere"/> <updated>Today's Date</updated> <author> <name>Author's Full Name</name> <email>Author's Email</email> </author> <id>Identifying information For the Feed Goes Here</id>

<entry> <title>Item 1 Title Goes Here</title> <link href="http://Item1LinkGoesHere"/> <id>Item 1's ID Goes Here</id> <updated>Item 1's Updated Date Goes Here</updated> <summary>Summary Text Goes Here</summary> </entry>

<entry> <title>Item 2 Title Goes Here</title> <link href="http://Item2LinkGoesHere"/> <id>Item 2's ID Goes Here</id> <updated>Item 2's Updated Date Goes Here</updated> <summary>Summary Text Goes Here</summary> </entry></feed>


Some RSS Examples

CNN’s Top Stories:http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

NY Times:http://nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Stanford Events:http://events.stanford.edu/xml/rss.xml

Stanford Daily:http://daily.stanford.edu/xml/rss2


Submitting RSS Feeds

Doing it yourself… Yahoo MSN Search Fyber Search Bulk Feeds Truth Laid Bear

Moreover Blog Street Memigo Feeds Farm Blogarama

News Knowledge Blog Wise News Trove Every Feed Blog SE

Syndic8 Boing Boing RSS Clipping Fastbuzz Eatonweb

Newsmob 2RSS Feedster Search4RSS Anse

Sourceforge Blog Digger Day Pop Feed-Directory Sarthak Blog

Bloggernity Bloogz Technorati News Is Free Rocket Info

Genecast Easy RSS Postami Topix Headline Spot

Blogdex Feed Directory Pub Sub Blog Tree Findory

Blog Catalog Step Newz WeBlogALot News Goblin News Feeds

Feedplex Popdex Newzfire Read A Blog Blog Pulse

Press Radar Rub Hub Feed 24 FeedsForAll Blog Map

Weblogs Feed Burner Blo.gs BlogRolling Technorati

NewsGator Pingomatic RSS Network Plazoo Feedzie

Feed Cat Feed Miner Ice Rocket Sphere Moz Dex

Uncle Feed Pluck RSS Locator News Net Plus Focus Look

Blog Bunch Blogtastic Explore Blogs Feed Pub Feeds2Read

RSS Directory House Of Blogs RSS Mad Blog Resource Feed Burner

All Feeds Content Desk Feed See Blog Watch 4GuysFromRolla

Gnoos Octora RSSMicro Feedooyoo Golden Feed

RSS-Feeds-Sub Readafeed Feedage Rorseek RSS Junky

Feed Fury News on Feeds


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


Linking Your Web Page to Your RSS Feed

Option 1: with a regular link, usually using the orange RSS icon:

<a href="linktomyrssfeed.xml"><img src="rss.gif" alt="RSS" /></a>

Option 2: by linking your web page using the <link> tag (in the <head> of your document)

<head><link rel="alternate"

type="application/rss+xml" title="Title for Your Feed"

href="linktomyrssfeed.xml" />


Resources

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)

www.rss-specifications.com/creating-rss-feeds.htm

searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271

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