To fully understand RSS, it's important to first understand syndication, or at least web syndication. Essentially, web syndication means that one site will make certain information available to a user, usually using a web feed, which is used to serve users frequently updated content. This content can include forums, news, etc. Confused?
RSS is a web feed format, which is often used for blog and podcast updates. RSS Stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. A RSS document is called a "feed", "web feed" or "channel". The main function of RSS, as briefly explained above, is for people to be able to view content that is updated often, and that may be of personal interest to them, without having to manually access the page the information originated from. Automation is the key word with RSS.
An aggregator is generally a web application, which brings all of the information together that you want in your RSS feed. This way you can have info from many different sites all on your own personal site. Aggregators "pull" content instead of "push", Email pushes content. Also, once your RSS feed is written, the aggregators act automatically, meaning you don't have to do anything to receive your info.
RSS can be used to track other students blogs because anytime a student posts a new blog, and aggregator will notice and bring you the new information. (The Dashboard options are pretty limited for this, so I think you need to install a aggregator program to do it for you.) This information will be posted on your site in whichever format you have set up. Karl has his personal website set up for this. I think this is the code:
I haven't gotten around to going to bloglines.com yet to create my own feed, but I'll be doing that soon.
RSS is a web feed format, which is often used for blog and podcast updates. RSS Stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. A RSS document is called a "feed", "web feed" or "channel". The main function of RSS, as briefly explained above, is for people to be able to view content that is updated often, and that may be of personal interest to them, without having to manually access the page the information originated from. Automation is the key word with RSS.
An aggregator is generally a web application, which brings all of the information together that you want in your RSS feed. This way you can have info from many different sites all on your own personal site. Aggregators "pull" content instead of "push", Email pushes content. Also, once your RSS feed is written, the aggregators act automatically, meaning you don't have to do anything to receive your info.
RSS can be used to track other students blogs because anytime a student posts a new blog, and aggregator will notice and bring you the new information. (The Dashboard options are pretty limited for this, so I think you need to install a aggregator program to do it for you.) This information will be posted on your site in whichever format you have set up. Karl has his personal website set up for this. I think this is the code:
I haven't gotten around to going to bloglines.com yet to create my own feed, but I'll be doing that soon.
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