Carl's world pt1- RSS feeds

[Carl Plant]

As promised I will begin a series of blog posts looking at the concepts behind some of the tools available on the net.

This post will look at RSS feeds which stands for really simple syndication.

Imagine a morning in the Plant household, I sneak downstairs to avoid waking up the littlest Plants to grab a cup of finest tea and read through my emails and catch up on the latest goings on across an estimated 3 billion websites!!

This used to be a bit of a headache as you can imagine until I discovered RSS feeds.

Many of these billions of websites have that little orange

icon. This icon means that if you want to you can freely subscribe to the latest updates from this site can be read in a RSS feed reader.
So now in the mornings I open up my email reader and also my RSS reader (I happen to use google reader but there are many more to choose from).

This website has an RSS feed that will inform you on latest updates to the site, it saves revisiting the website just in case something new has happened.

Here are a few more links to follow

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[Simon Bradshaw]

Thanks Carl, thats helpful as i'm less of a technophobe, more of a technodunno.
My education has begun, Master..

Simon.

[Carl Plant]

and a link to feedburner

[Carl Plant]

If you have your own website or blog you can create an RSS feed, this is mainly available as standard. You can create an rss feed using feedburner or similar. You can also make a newsfeed from older websites too.

Here's a link that may help

[Louise Rogers]

Hi Carl, in the Rogers household all is not so calm as the dog demands attention. So it's a cuppa of the not so finest tea and a trip round the local cricket pitch musing on the world.

I use Tabbloid to make a newspaper of RSS feeds - thinking of the different networks that I belong to and how to optimise information delivery.

The one thing that I cannot find out is how to create an RSS feed - do you know? Louise xx