Blogs and RSS

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Blogs and RSS
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell
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Definitions

• Blog Web Log an online journal A web page
  with periodic posts in reverse chronologic order
• Blogosphere - totality of blogs on the web

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Uses for Blog

• Communicating with Patrons
• McGoogan Library Daily News http//app1.unmc.edu/l
  ibraryill/mcgoogan/
• Providing information about a particular topic
• http//library.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/
• Community Organization Blogs
• http//www.uwayhelps.org/blog/2006/04/our-very-own
  -steve-tock-urban-league.html
• See a listing of library and technology blogs
• http//nnlm.gov/mcr/services/technology/blogs.htm
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Blog Features

• Comments
• Notifications Services
• Categories
• Customization options

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Blog Software

• Online
• Get started right away on your own
• Software
• Needed for multi-authored blogs

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Online

• Bloglines http//www.bloglines.com/
• Blogger http//www.blogger.com/

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Software

• Open Source
• Word Press http//www.wordpress.org
• Commercial
• Moveable Type http//www.sixapart.com/movabletype/
  

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RSS
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What is RSS

• Stands for Real Simple Syndication.
• According to Wikipedia RSS is a family of XML
  file formats for web syndication used by (amongst
  other things) news websites.
• Any type of information web site uses RSS
  today.

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How does it Work?

• A program known as a news feed reader or
  aggregator can check RSS-enabled web pages on
  behalf of a user and display any updated articles
  that it finds.

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Web-based Aggregators

• Available to all Internet capable computers.
• Typically a web site that you have to sign up
  for.
• Example Bloglines or My Yahoo.

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Client Side Aggregators

• Typically stand alone programs or extensions to
  other established programs, such as web browsers.
• Examples Firefox or Pluck.

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Questions

• Call your technology Liaison
• 800-338-7657