RSS (Producer)

Lecture/Coffee Talk:

  Lecture(s)/Demo(s):

• RSS (Producer ) Overview (12:14) | Homework Review (5:08)
• Via iTunes (each 3-6min long)
  • Maximize feeds w/FeedBurner
  • Chicklets (Feedburner)
  • Chicklets (AddThis)
  • Showing feed content via your blogger blog
  • Using Feed2JS to add feed content to your blog/wiki/website
  • Using FeedDigest to repurpose multiple feeds for your blog/wiki/website
  • Using a Google Analytics account with your blog

  Steve Notes:

• From passive user to producer/developer/manager...
• Blogs and Content Management Systems (CMSs) create feeds...so can you
  • If you can code xhtml you can code a feed
• Repurposing feeds is fun, helpful and good time mgmt
• Knowing if someone is subscribed to your feed/using your blog is good for stats

  Definition(s):

• n/a

  Lingo:

•  n/a

  Popular Programs/Services: 

• Creating your own feeds
  • FeedForAll
  • Tristana
• Feed Optimization
  • FeedBurner
  • Rapidfeeds
• Re-purposing feeds
  • Feed2JS
  • Free Javascript
  • FeedDigest (now FeedInformer)

     

  • Rapidfeeds
  • RSSFeedReader
• Chicklets
  •  AddThis
  • TopRankBlogs
• Site Analytics
  • Google Analytics

  Library Example(s):

• Hennepin County Library
• Kenton County Public Library

  Resources/Other:

• rss specification | rss board
• Blogbar
• pingomatic | FeedBurner Ping (Patience works too)

Homework/To Do:

Reading: 

• Farkas. Librarians as RSS publishers, pgs. 54-60 and Librarians as RSS Middlemen, pgs. 60-63
• Anderson, M.T. Feed (Finish)
• Pete Bromberg's RSS Demystified Presentation on SlideShare (slides 45-72)

Watching:

• Meredith Farkas and Paul Pival, Sirsi/Dynix Institute: Free your content! RSS for Libraries

Projects

• Blog Posts (Just a paragraph or two)
  • Final Comments on Feed
    • How close are we to the the society of Feed? Are our present systems (Google tracking, single accounts into multiple services...) a simple precursor?
    •  What struck you most about the society of Feed? (e.g. acceptance of lesions, twist on the Digital Divide, people don't know how to write...)
  • Create a post that talks about a "new to you" Social Software, Web2.0 or Library2.0 site
    • If you need a site, search on SS, Web2.0, etc. at del.icio.us
    • What "intrigues" you about this site? Do you think you might use it in the future?
  • RSS and Information Overload: Does the use of RSS/RSS aggregators mitigate or aggravate the problem of Information Overload in today's society?
• Burn your feed
  • Use FeedBurner to optimize your feed (make sure to set blogger redirect. Dashboard>>Settings>>Site Feed)
  • Use FeedBurner's Chicklet Chooser to add a simple rss chicklet to your blog (put it high up so I can see it easily)
• Using/Repurposing feeds

   

  • Using FeedDigest create a feed from multiple feeds and add it to your wiki page (Insert Plugin>>PBwiki Magic>>HTML)
• Google Analytics
  • Using your existing Google account (xxscils598...) log in to Google Analytics
  • Create an account to "track" the use of your blog
  • Go to Blogger and add the tracking code to your blog as a page element
  • Wait 24hrs and check out your stats
  • We'll check in on your account now and then thru the semester

Suggestions:

(Your area to make any suggestions as to how this is taught/what is taught)

(example) sg - suggestion goes here

lj - information on Bounce Rate and Exit Rate.  I was looking for information when I was checking out Google Analytic.  http://www.hmtweb.com/blog/2007/08/bounce-rate-and-exit-rate-what-is.html

ts-  came across this today and thought it was cool.  14 "other" uses for RSS.  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-other-ways-to-use-rss-feeds/