RSS

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Rich Site Summary.” It is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. You no longer need to daily visit websites and news information sources. Instead, you can create an RSS aggregator account or news reader using Bloglines. ƒ View RSS in Plain English, a video by Common Craft http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english ƒ How to Use Bloglines tutorial at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i1w1_rss-reader-how-to_tech 1. Signing Up a. Register for a free account at http://www.bloglines.com. Enter your email and password and click on

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b. Bloglines will register you and send you an email to validate your account.

2. Subscribing to Feeds Using Bloglines a. Once you are logged on to your Bloglines account, click on “Feeds” on the top left corner. You will see the default Bloglines News feed.

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b. From the search window on the right, change search option from Search for Posts to Search for Feeds. c. A search for feeds on “unemployment” gives several results. You can to preview or subscribe to feed.

1 d. After subscribing to the Brookings feed on unemployment, you will see new stories displayed in right pane. Click on “Feeds” and then click on “Brookings Topics – Unemployment.” Interesting posts can be saved to Clippings on Bloglines.

3. Subscribing to Feeds with Google Blog Search a. Use Google Blog Search at http://blogsearch.google.com/ to find suggested on a topic.

b. You can link directly to the news stories or see suggestions for Related Blogs.

c. Check out a suggested blog. Right click on the orange RSS icon and choose Copy Shortcut.

d. Paste the resulting URL into the window that appears when you click Add a Feed from left pane of your Bloglines account.

2 4. Finding other feeds a. Look for the orange icon, the most common symbol for an RSS feed: Clicking on the icon gives you directions for subscribing to the feed. You may also see something like this: b. If a Website does not display the orange icon, you can create an RSS feed at http://page2rss.com/ c. A list of newspaper with RSS feeds is available at http://www.themediadrop.com/archives/003699.php Check out the New York Times RSS feeds at http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html. d. See the US Government RSS Library (including feeds on Economics) at http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml e. Technorati at http://technorati.com/ is an Internet search engine for finding blogs.

You can explore resulting posts and then choose whether to subscribe to the complete blog.

5. Gale Infotrac Search Alerts a. Set up an RSS feed (search alert) to keep updated on magazine and newspaper articles added to Gale Infotrac databases. b. Connect to Infotrac from LHS Library Research page http://remc12.k12.mi.us/lhslib/Electronic.htm c. Click the and buttons to search through all databases. d. Do a Browse Subjects search on Unemployment. Click + sign to expand topics; choose Statistics. e. Display results under various tabs: Magazine; Academic Journals; Books; News; Multimedia. f. Click the RSS icon. Follow instructions to copy and paste the long URL into your news reader - in this case, Bloglines.

6. Alternatives to Bloglines In addition to Bloglines and (Web based feed readers), other tools let you keep track of updated Web content. Personalized home pages such as iGoogle, Netvibes, and provide a more visual format for reading feeds and can incorporate online material. 3