RSS+feed+aggregators

=RSS Feed Aggregators =

You have probably found many websites with interesting information for your research. The problem is, the content in these websites changes frequently, so you have to keep going back to the same websites to see if there is anything new.

With **RSS**, you can have the new content come to you, all in one place. From that one place you can see what has been updated in hundreds of websites. That central location is called an **//aggregator//** or //**feed reader**//, and the new content that the aggregator pulls together is grouped into "news feeds" or just "feeds". Here's a short video from [|Common Craft] that can explain:

media type="custom" key="661775" RSS works for all kinds of websites, as long as the address box on your web browser has this symbol: Many websites, especially news services like [|CNN], [|MSNBC], and [|Radikal], even let you choose news categories --like politics, sports or weather-- for separate feeds.

You can use RSS to gather information from search engines. Imagine doing a search on Yahoo! News for "beijing olympics". Every time new material that fits your search criteria shows up on the Internet, it gets pulled into your feed reader. You set up your search one time, and it keeps on working for you day after day!

If you or your favorite researcher use social bookmarks like [|del.icio.us] or [|diigo], you can use RSS to track everything that person does on del.icio.us, or just every time that person uses a specific tag. For example, I collect websites about smart boards. You can use RSS to pull information from my del.icio.us account every time I use the tag "smartboard". Even better, you can pull information from the entire del.icio.us university whenever anyone uses that same tag.

RSS worksheet

Other resources:
Wikipedia article in Turkish: [|RSS nedir?]

Search Engine Watch: [|Choosing an RSS Reader]

Mr. Hemingway's blog post on RSS feeds:[|link]

Mr. Hemingway's public news feeds: http://www.bloglines.com/public/TomHemingway

Mr. Hemingway's del.icio.us bookmarks tagged for 'rss': http://del.icio.us/themingway/rss


 * Other feed readers:**

[| Rojo] [| Netvibes] [| My Yahoo!] [|Google Reader] [|PageFlakes]

You can use both Firefox and Internet Explorer to create live bookmarks, which are bookmarks (favorites) that work like mini-aggregators. In Firefox, instead of "Bookmark this page", choose "Subscribe to this page". = =