RSS+Feeds

=Feed Your Reader!= RSS stands for "real simple syndication," which is a fancy way of saying stuff is getting broadcasted. What kind of stuff? News, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and changes on dynamic web-based pages, like wikis. You can "read", "listen", or "view" any web-based media in your RSS reader. Check out the video from the folks at Common Craft to see what I'm talking about. toc

RSS in Plain English
Video by Common Craft, Time 3:52

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Add a Fun Feed to Your Reader:
Check out this list of fun feeds. Add a few to your reader. Look for an XML icon or the RSS orange icon. Dilbert Daily Comic http://www.dilbert.com/rss/ Movie Reviews From Rotten Tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/syndication_rss.php Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://dictionary.reference.com/help/linking/wordoftheday-expert.html Follow Your Favorite Sports Team http://sports.yahoo.com/top/rss Weather http://www.weather.com/weather/rss/subscription

News Feeds
Find some news feeds and add them to your reader. You can select a specific topic within a news source or get the whole news source at once. Again, organzie your feeds into folders.

[|New York Times] [|NPR: National Public Radio] [|Philadelphia Inquirer]

Challenge Task: Create your own news feed. Go to [|Google News] and do a search based on a topic that interests you. You can search for a country, a person, or a current event that you would like to follow. Google will pull news feeds from 4,500 news sources. You can get fancy and narrow your search by just a few news sources that you enjoy. Go for it! Once you find a feed topic you like, click on the link "RSS" in the bottom of the left navigation bar. You can paste the "feed" link into your reader. It's that easy!