Group items tagged

This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom.

We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader.

Although content scraping has a very negative connotation nowadays the truth is that there are really some valid reasons for its existence.

This Feed2JS web site provides you a free service that can do all the hard work for you-- in 3 easy steps: Find the RSS source, the web address for the feed. Use our simple tool to build the JavaScript command that will display it Optionally style it up to look pretty.

Check out our automated podcast “to go”: your site's RSS feeds, text articles and blog posts can be converted automatically to iPod-ready audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides.

From analyzing your RSS feed to counting page views to visual representations of where your visitors are clicking, there is no shortage of companies looking to help you better understand your web site’s traffic. In our latest “toolbox” installment, we analyze (pun intended) the wide variety of applications and tools available for keeping tabs on how your sites, feeds, blogs, emails, or even your intranet is performing.

Ning is definitely a wonderful online networking tool, with a really nice integrated environment for discussion boards and blogging, with excellent RSS feeds for all of it

This article posits a definition and theory for "Library 2.0". It suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0" will have substantial implications for libraries, and recognizes that while these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. The paper applies the theory and definition to the practice of librarianship, specifically addressing how Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups might intimate changes in how libraries provide access to their collections and user support for that access.

This will turn the output of your blog into a straight up podcast ready bit of RSS.