RSS Feeds And How To Handle Too Much Information

Sharing and mixing content: RSS

What is this RSS?

• a good video explanation

Benefits

• Faster browsing
• Design your own news and information flow
• Automatically keeps track of what you've already read
• Easily edited, updated
• Shareable

Tools

• Aggregators and readers: Bloglines, NetNewswire, Vienna (an open source, freely available, stand-alone RSS reader for MAC OSX)
• Search: IceRocket, Technorati
• Publish: Feedburner
• Publishing your feedmix: Sharing OPML
• Mixing desktop and web data: Parakey

Uses of RSS in the classroom and life:

• Timesaving (content only)
• Timesaving (pay attention to updates)
• Managing multiple sources
• Sharing feedsets ("OPML files")
• Follow students and student groups easily
• Follow Web 2.0 projects (blogs, wiki changes, Flickr, del.icio.us)
• Increase audience

Mashups

• Mashups for nonprogrammers

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