RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

for Content Publishers and Webmasters This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. Introducing RSS Think about all of the information that you access on the Web on a day-to-day basis; news headlines, search results, “What’s New”, job vacancies, and so forth. Most people need to track a number of these lists, but it becomes difficult once there are more than a handful of sources. RSS is an XML-based format that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link. This allows peoples’ computers to fetch and understand the information, so that all of the lists they’re interested in can be tracked and personalized for them. What’s in a feed? How do people use feeds? No! <? <? <?

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Sula Pinta Blogs for Learning | Articles - The Technology of Reading and Writing in the Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom Although in the past fews years there has been a marked growth in the number of higher education classrooms that utilize an on-line writing component, adapting the teaching of writing to digital spaces has met with resistance on the part of both students and professors. While there are many hurdles to address in navigating technological changes in writing practices, I would like to suggest that part of the problem has been a lack of understanding about the ways that information is disseminated and archived in these spaces. We need to begin by framing the approach in a new way to contextualize writing better, and, more importantly, to make classroom blogging (and even more broadly writing in digital spaces) more productive for the students and professors. In particular, I want to show how the technology of RSS is crucial both from a theoretical and a practical standpoint to any digital writing, but especially to any blogging classroom. Why this Matters in the Blogging Classroom Praxis

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WordPress Enters Real-Time: 7.5 Million Blogs Reach Twitter Spee RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader. Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable, The New York Times, and even LOLcats. However, it does have its limitations. The big one is speed. It can take minutes to hours for a blog post to reach the reader through RSS. This has been a big reason why more and more people are turning to real-time services like Twitter and FriendFeed for their news. Now WordPress has done something big that eliminates that RSS delay problem and brings Wordpress.com's 7.5 million blogs into real-time, along with any other self-hosted Wordpress blog. RSSCloud and WordPress.com Wordpress founder Matt Mullengweg explained the blog network's newfound support for RSSCloud in a blog post earlier today. Right now how most people interact with feeds is by checking that it updated every now and then, usually about once an hour.

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