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Thing #2: RSSJuly 24, 2008 Fasten your seatbelts for this one folks!This week’s discovery exercises focus on learning about RSS news feeds and setting up a NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
Resources for Finding Feeds:
These Search tools that can help you find feeds:
Subscribing to Feeds:
In NetVibes:
  In Google Reader:
 Adding All Together Now Blogs: Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs: Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
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Posted by Michael Stephens on July 24, 2008 | Comments (23)
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Ruth Lorbert commented: NetVibes is great-I'm hooked! I'll be using it as my default homepage so that I can see everything at a glance.
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Michael Stephens commented: Good stuff Ruth - I use it for my home page too!
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Alice Yucht commented: Another blogroll of possible subscriptions to explore: www.aliceyucht.pbwiki.com/EduBiblioBlogList
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Bill Drew commented: I can't find anything comparable to marking read items or for marking favorites in NetVibe. I can do both in Google Reader. I wrote my post on my blog at babyboomerlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/07/all-together-now-thing-2-rss.html
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS suzi w. commented: ack! netvibes is overwhelming!! But good to know what is out there.
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Ruthie commented: When adding a feed, what do the different options such as atom, rss, rss2.0 mean?
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Michael Stephens commented: Ruthie - Those are different types of RSS.
July 24, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Gail F commented: I keep getting an error message when I try to add our feed to my Google Reader. Anyone else having trouble?
July 25, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Carol A commented: Sure is lots of cool stuff out there! Now I just need a clone to read it all ;-)
July 25, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS annot8 commented: Does bloglines count as a feed reader?
July 25, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS annot8 commented: I meant to add: Bloglines allows customizable feed groupings, too.
July 26, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Brenda commented: More of a shared blog - but since we're on RSS feeds, check out this, The Ultimate RSS ToolKit: 100+ Online Apps and Resources. oedb.org/library/features/the_ultimate_rss_toolset.
July 26, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS DEBRA HANSON commented: I'm getting it...and thinking about how to use these tools with my kids in our libraries - but now I'm wondering if I'll be able to do anything with these great tools at my school with students - because most things like this are blocked by our District filters for security reasons - can anyone comment on your situation? Any suggestions?
July 27, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Anne commented: I'm having trouble with netvibes. I think I'm adding RSS feeds, but later when I return to netvibes the sites I added have disappeared. Help, what have I missed?
July 27, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Marie B in NY commented: Anne,
July 27, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Molly commented: Hi Marie,
July 29, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS comment4u commented: I really like Wizz RSS which integrates really nicely into Firefox.
August 3, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Leo commented: Love the RSS idea I have added it to my iGoogle you learn something new every day.
August 7, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Stefan RO commented: RSS is super. And its time saving
August 7, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Stefan RO commented: RSS is super. And its time saving
August 18, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Barbara Braxton commented: If you are interested in advocacy, you might like to add this link to your RSS feed hubinfo.wordpress.com.
August 29, 2008
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Barbara Braxton commented: Doug Johnson has just posted a item called 'Don't Underestimate the Aggregator' on his Blue Skunk blog doug-johnson.squarespace.com/which is really interestng
May 10, 2009
In response to: Thing #2: RSS Jessicabogy commented: I am very interested in this
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