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 RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news readers, also known as aggregators, enable you to subscribe to RSS news "feeds" from a variety of news sources, thus "aggregating" news of interest to you in one convenient location.
Also listed below are links to software that will enable you to create your own news feed attached to your web site. This could be an ideal way for teachers to share assignment information with groups of students, or for schools to share news updates with their local communities.
The information below is far from comprehensive, and is provided for those who are getting started.
See also: RSS in Plain English (YouTube)
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- Most web browsers and e-mail clients now include a facility enabling you to subscribe to and read RSS feeds. The software listed below is more specialised software for subscribing to RSS feeds.
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Locally Installed Software
- Access news feeds from your own computer:
- NetNewsWire (Mac)
SharpReader (Win)
Liferea (Lin)
Web Access
- Access your favourite news feeds from the web on any computer:
- Google Reader
BlogLines
See also the wazmacdotcom subscription page for links to other web-based services.
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- If you maintain a web site with regularly changing content you might find it useful to publish your own RSS feeds.
An RSS feed is really just an additional page in your web site. This page usually mirrors an existing news page in your site, but is in a slightly different format - you will notice the xml, atom, or rss extension on a feed page, rather than the usual htm or html.
If you use one of the popular blog sites, such as Blogger or Wordpress, to publish your news, an RSS feed is created automatically, at the address below.....
Blogger:
http://yoursite.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
WordPress:
http://yoursite.wordpress.com/feed/
EduBlogs:
http://yoursite.edublogs.org/feed/
If you have a "regular" web site, you will either need to embed a blog into the news section of your web site, using the blog's automatically-generated RSS page, or create an additional RSS page containing your news.
You can read about how to incorporate a blog into your web site by following the News link at the Somewhere PS demo site.
Alternatively, you can use some software that is designed specifically to create RSS pages, and which allows you to maintain a little more control over your feeds, to create an RSS page within your web site:
- FeedForAll (Mac, Win)
RSS Dreamfeeder (Mac, Win)
Feed Editor (Win)
RSS Wizard - HTML Converter (Win)
See also:- RSS Specifications - info
Browser RSS Icon display - how to
Somewhere PS News page
Hide Google Blog Navbar
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All major news sites provide one (or more) RSS feeds:
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- Wazza's RSS Feed Examples
- Display your RSS feed in other formats - embed in other pages, and feed to other services, such as Twitter.
TwitterFeed- Publish your RSS feed automatically to your Twitter page, for all your followers!
Create a widget to display an RSS feed on your page:- - Feedo
- Yourminis
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WidgetBox
- Grazr
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Display an RSS Icon- Insert some text within your page header so that browsers will be aware that an RSS feed exists on the page, and will then display an RSS icon in the URL window or toolbar.
RSS Icon Gallery- Icons and relevant code to add direct links to other services to your page.
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