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RSS Feeds, Blogs, and Podcasts
Mark Branom, IT Services
Tech Briefing
http://techbriefing.stanford.edu/
June 8, 2007
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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:
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www.getfirefox.com
www.getthunderbird.com
www.feedreader.com
www.rssreader.com
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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>
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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>
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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
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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
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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
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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" />
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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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