Quoting Malin Coleridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> My organization has an article on this topic.
>
>
http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/internet/page1643.cfm?show=list&sort=first?cg=searchterms&sg=RSS
>
thanks, malin. marnie does a great job with her explaining. i'll be linking to
this article from the article i write.
- phil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katy Pearce
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [DDN] article in progress - "what is rss and how will itbenefit
> me?"
>
> Oddly enough, I blogged about this today:
>
> http://youngcaucasus.neweurasia.net/?p=30
>
> This was specifically written for non-native English speaking teenagers
> with limited tech backgrounds. It is about as basic as it gets.
>
> Cheers,
> Katy
>
> Quoting Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> >
> > Phil Shapiro wrote:
> >> hi DDN community -
> >> i'm working on a new article that explains what RSS is and
> >> how it benefits
> >> people. the beginning of the article appears at
> >> http://whatisrss.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >> i have some ideas of what i'll be including in this article
> >> next, but i
> >> need help getting more examples of how RSS brings benefits into
> >> peoples' lives.
> >>
> >> if you can think of some examples of how you or others use
> >> RSS, thanks
> >> for sending them over this way. the more examples i can assemble, the
> more
> >> people will be able to understand what RSS is about. the
> >> article i'm assembling is in the public domain and will be freely
> >> redistributable for any purpose -- including reprinting in
> >> newsletters, etc. thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> phil shapiro
> >> washington dc
> >>
> >
> > Hi Phil
> >
> > I don't know if meant "sending ideas this way" to you personally or
> > to the DDN list, but I believe it would make an interesting
> > discussion topic, because:
> >
> > I first heard of RSS on the DDN discussion list: you, Andy, Taran,
> > other tech-minded people posted about it. As usual, I was slow on the
> > uptake, only realizing after half a dozen messages that wow, this ws
> > really something revolutionary and I'd better make an effort to
> > understand what it would change and how.
> >
> > Then I tried to bring the concept home to the other people at ADISI
> > www.adisi.ch: we are meant to concentrate on the divulgation of
> > "cyberlaw" issues, but in a way, cyberlaw is not autonomous, it's
> > about how to apply law to things happening in the cyberworld. And
> > really simple syndication is certainly something big happening in
> > the cyberworld, with legal conundrums attached. About authorship and
> > authors' rights, for instance.
> >
> > One problem in trying to make the others at ADISI understand the
> > momentous importance of RSS was language: the vivid experiences
> > exchanged on the DDN list were in English, and English is the 3rd or
> > 4th language for the members of the ADISI committe (Italian native,
> > then French, German).
> >
> > To overcome this language barrier, with Mahdi Mezher, the IT pro at
> > ADISI, I wrote a blog entry on 11/9/04, "Firefox 1.0 è uscito oggi.
> > Novità: il "newsreader incorporato"" (Firefox 1.0. came out today.
> > New feature: embedded newsreader"
> > <http://adisi.livejournal.com/20329.html>, about live bookmarks in
> > Firefox. The others politely said it was very interesting, - staring
> > blankly. But OK, the started using the live bookmarks in Firefox and
> > bagan to get interested.
> >
> > So I made www.bloglines.com/public/adisi, and the others seemed a bit
> > more impressed, being able to view all those dynamic sites in real
> > time and in one page (I must confess that I only just understood what
> > the clip blog that goes with it, http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ADISI,
> > is about and how it works).
> >
> > And then you tech-aware people at DDN moved on to podcasts. It was
> > damned thrilling, but I had learned from the experience trying to
> > convey the importance of RSS feeds. So I first made a very crude
> > podcast at http://podhost.de before shooting my mouth about it here.
> >
> > It worked. As did the fact that our translation of Tod Maffin's "How
> > podcasting will save radio" was immediately taken up by Indymedia
> > <http://switzerland.indymedia.org/demix/2005/02/30216.shtml> :-D .
> > Mahdi and I got interviewed about podcasts at RSI, the
> > Italian-language national radio. Now RSI has started having podcasts
> > too.
> >
> > We are also making a podcast for our own radio broadcast, Tam Tam
> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/adisi/tamtam>. And by making I mean
> > making it by hand, adding an XML sausage to the string for each new
> > instalment. We make code mistakes, take down the file, try to find
> > where we went wrong, put it back up, take it down again...
> >
> > This handmade podcast doesn't make sense, per se: Tam Tam is a
> > bi-weekly thing, and we could just have gone on putting the MP3's in
> > the broadcast list (<http://www.adisi.ch/tamtam/lista2006.html> for
> > this year's). I feel like the bloke crouching in Vaucansson's
> > chess-player's "automat": that's not how normal folks do podcasts:
> > they have a program that does the sausage-adding for them, like the
> > one I first used at podhost.de.
> >
> > We really started it as an example in Italian. There are light music
> > podcasts, of course, but we wanted to show that it can also be used
> > for conveying info, and in education.
> >
> > But as to real divulgation, beyond people already curious about tech,
> > it ain't easy. Here, blogs are still considered as kids' stuff. Some
> > education researchers are starting to advocate using blogs in
> > teaching, but - with the notable exception of prof. Lorenzo Cantoni's
> > http://newmine.blogspot.com - aren't keeping one themselves.
> >
> > And teachers, not being told about RSS possibilities, feel daunted at
> > the prospect of following several blogs. And they are not told about
> > RSS possibilities because the teachers' trainers don't know about
> > them. In part because of the language problem, which in turn implies
> > a mediation instead of direct access to debates about tech
> > innovation. Or rather: about the uses and potential of tech
> > innovation, as happens here on the DDN list.
> >
> > Media could do more. At RSR, the French-speaking national radio,
> > Jean-Olivier Pain has a hilarious and bloody well-informed broadcast
> > about IT innovation, "La capsule de Pain" every morning from Monday
> > to Friday:
> >
>
<http://info.rsr.ch/fr/rsr.html?programId=110451&bcItemName=capsule_multimedia&rubricId=3500&contentDisplay=last_five&siteSect=1000>
> (1). With a podcast and a help page about
> > podcasting.
> >
> > It doesn't quite work the same way in the Italian-speaking part. RSI
> > does have podcasts, but it doesn't have a general RSS feed, whereas
> > RSR has one. Again, a language issue: English is far more widespread
> > in French-speaking Switzerland than here. There are other factors too
> > (RSI has a smaller budget, for instance), but access to info in
> > English seems to be the main one.
> >
> > And it's a sorry paradox, because Italian speakers, being a minority
> > and fairly isolated geographically from the rest of Switzerland, have
> > an even greater need for the advantages of IT innovations such as RSS
> > feeds.
> >
> > (1) I wish our national broadcasting corporation would find a way to
> > produce meaningful URLs - shorter one for La capsule de Pain:
> > <http://tinyurl.com/a3uuz>.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Claude
> >
> > Claude Almansi
> > Castione, Switzerland
> > www.adisi.ch
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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