This week, Jill & Michael had a conversation about the mysterious things known as RSS feeds. We covered a fair bit of ground, including:
1) What are they?
2) Using google reader to follow many different streams in one place
3) Alternatives – follow, friend etc
..but we didn’t get onto this topic
4) feeds into wikispaces.
RSS is a little-understood phenomenon that can be hugely handy to getting things done, and wading gently through the streams of internet information.
Here’s a recording of the session.
Here’s the famous “Common Craft” introduction to RSS:
Here’s the wiki page relating to the topic of RSS aka syndicated headlines. One of the best places to start exploring is the abc website .. you’ll find the link there somewhere (Australian Broadcasting Corpn.)
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