RSS: part 2
A. Basics:
- subscribing to a feed in Bloglines
- exporting your feeds from Bloglines: (click “edit,” scroll to bottom: “export subscriptions”, save that file)
- importing your feeds into other systems: Rojo or Google Reader
- examples of RSS feeds in real world (see RSS, part 1)
B. Embedding RSS feeds in a web page:
- we are doing it now: Barker home page (each library has one)
- public desktops in individual libraries (active desktop web pages)
- experiment: our Virtual Reference page via del.icio.us & FeedDigest - mockup
C. Tools for mixing feeds and displaying them on web pages:
D. Other applications:
- embedd RSS feeds in a portal: My Yahoo
- get your RSS feeds via email: FeedBlizt, Rmail
- RSS integrated into Yahoo Mail beta and Yahoo alerts
- create one feed from many feeds: FeedBlendr
- stats on feeds: Feedburner
E. RSS feeds with saved searches embedded:
F. What does it all mean for libraries?
- “The library needs to be in the user environment and not expect the user to find their way to the library environment,” from Lorcan Dempsey’s In the Flow.
G. Further reading
See the RSS section of the bibliography.