Here is some information that may help you. NEWS: RESOURCES : INTERNET: MEDIA: What Is RSS? RSS Explained : RSS Resource Links <http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/ wa?A2=ind0412&L=NET-GOLD&P=R65921&I=-3>
A shorter URL for the above link: <http://snipurl.com/c7qk> >From the above post, here is this: RSS Definition in Webopedia <http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html> "Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A user that can read RSS-distributed content can use the content on a different site. Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information. RSS was originally developed by Netscape." There is much more in this post on this topic of RSS. I also highly recommend this post and the content of the librarian whose website is highlighted in this post. Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 07:26:29 -0400 (EDT) From: David P. Dillard To: Temple Gold Discussion Group Subject: [NetGold] INFORMATION SCIENCE: CURRENT AWARENESS: RESOURCES: Steven J. Bell's Keeping Up Web Site <http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/ wa?A2=ind0408&L=NET-GOLD&P=R61661&I=-3> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://snipurl.com/c7qm> I think that my friend and listmate George Lessard's post on this topic may put an interesting light on this topic of value to the Digital Divide perspective on the internet. Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:52:29 -0600 From: George Lessard Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: L ABORIGINAL JOURNALISTS Cc: Creative Radio List Subject: [Net-Gold] We're All Journalists Now <http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0408&L=NET-GOLD&P=R30722&I=-3> And here is another post that has links that teach about RSS. Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: David P. Dillard Reply-To: To: Net-Gold Subject: [Net-Gold] INTERNET: SERVICES: RSS: RSS Clearly Explained: Countdown to RSS, the Gateway Technology <http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/ wa?A2=ind0406&L=NET-GOLD&P=R70799&I=-3> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://snipurl.com/c7qu> I hope these links will be helpful to those learning about RSS for the first time as well as those wishing to learn more about this new version of the old concept of SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) that databanks pioneered as a way of keeping subsrcibers to the databanks aware of new literature published on topics they were researching. By the way asking questions is not only far from ignorance in any sense, without questions, reference librarians would go out of existence. The messages above that I posted regarding sources that explain what RSS is and how it is used are resources that I collected to find out for myself more about RSS. By the way, all Yahoo Groups are available in RSS as well as the normal discussion group format. Yahoo Groups <http://groups.yahoo.com> Here is the explanation on the Net-Gold site for this form of provision of discussion group content. Net-Gold RSS <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/rss> Here is an excerpt from this page. "RSS RSS Help What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for distributing web content (such as news headlines or new content in your group). You can use RSS to read or display recent group messages on another location of your choice. Here are some examples: Read messages on My Yahoo! Read messages in an RSS reader, or a news aggregator. Display messages in your web log (otherwise known as "blog") for others to see." Thanks for asking and have a great weekend. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> ==================================================== On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Pamela McLean wrote: > Am I the only person wondering what RSS stands for? > I confess I am only dipping in and out of the DDN list anyhow so may > have missed something - or perhaps its something that "everyone" knows > (Maybe I'll suddenly realise as soon as I click on the send button to > confess my ignorance ..) > I don't need all the techie details - but would appreciate a sentence or > two...... _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
