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"Author: Andy Carvin , EDC Center for Media & Community | December 7th, 2004 You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. For example: XML button When you click on the button, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and they're changing the way people access the Internet. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technical format that allows online publishers to share and distribute their content to other websites or individual Internet users. It's commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. Bloggers use it to distribute summaries of their blog entries as well. RSS is written in the Internet coding language known as XML, which is why you see RSS buttons labeled that way. If a website publishes an RSS page, commonly known as an RSS "feed," this feed will contain summaries of all the recent articles posted on that site. For example, Yahoo News publishes news related to world headlines, national news, sports, etc. These you can all read by going to the Yahoo website. But they also publish RSS feeds for each of these subjects. Each RSS feed contains a summary of the most recent news stories posted. Similarly, the Digital Divide Network publishes RSS feeds for our news headlines, events listings and other content on our website. I even have my own RSS feed for articles that I publish on my personal blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. But why do RSS feeds look like a jumbled mess when I click on them with most Web browsers? It's because RSS feeds are meant to be read by machines rather than people. Software and websites can understand the data contained in RSS feeds and make it available to people on personalized websites, through software known as news aggregators, even through email. So when you aggregate RSS feeds, you're having a computer collect content from many different websites and organize them in a convenient pla

Linkato in http://iamarf.org/2013/04/20/racconti-ltis13/ , commento 42. RSS come empowerment.

The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too. Many BitTorrent clients support RSS feeds for broadcatching (see Comparison of BitTorrent clients). With the rise of Cloud computing, some cloud based services offer as well the feed aggregation. They are listed here as well. Contents  [hide]  1 Release history 2 Operating system support 3 Web feed and protocol support 4 Interface and notes 5 Capabilities 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

"About Pipes Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs: - combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it.  - geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map. - power widgets/badges on your web site. - grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats."

You can also import a custom OPML file to your Scoop.it topic sources. An OPML file allows you to transfer your RSS feeds and other aggregations to other sources easily. This is great news for Google Reader users - you can simply download your OPML file and add it to your Scoop.it sources for your topics.

"DataWeave provides actionable data by aggregating, parsing, organizing and visualizing millions of data points from the Web. We help you discover, monitors, and analyze huge amounts of data. Much like the roots of a tree, DataWeave draws data from the web and makes it available for use in your Apps, Analytics and day to day decision making.DataWeave makes data access easy through APIs, dashboards, alerts, and visualizations."

"Forse la prossima chiusura di Google Reader sarà un bene. Ci costringerà, dopo una dozzina d'anni di uso dei feed reader, ad evolvere e a cercare un sistema migliore per tirare verso di noi i contenuti che davvero ci interessano. Ora bisogna solo capire se già esistono strumenti in grado di farlo, se esistono reti da pesca in grado di intrappolare solo pesci prelibati, o cani da tartufo in grado di riportare solo preziosi tuberi. O se invece saremo costretti a migrare, a 2013 inoltrato, sull'ennesimo aggregatore di feed, dove perle e banalità sono mischiate in ugual misura."

Titolo volutamente provocatorio. Partendo dall'annuncio della chiusura dell'aggregatore di feed Google Reader, l'autore si interroga su perché e con quali mezzi radunare e organzzare informazioni. Grazie a Mattia Lanzoni - https://www.diigo.com/user/Matzlanz - per la segnalazione.