RSS Feeds

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. It’s a cool way to pull content from a Website and put it in one place so it’s easy to get for you to find. If a Website has an RSS Feed, it will have the recognizable symbol. You can sunscribe to new content from blogs, news organizations, or ANY website that wants to ‘push’ it’s content to. In order to receive FEEDS, you have to set up an aggregator . An aggregator is a feed reader that gathers all your feeds up for you in one spot. There are a lot of them out there, but some popualr examples include Bloglines, Google Reader, and Netvibes.

Check out this video for more info:

For a bit more info on RSS Feeds, you can read the Wikipedia entry.

Now it’s time to sign up for an account for an aggregator.  Once you sign up find some feeds to follow, you can start with some library blogs, and blog about your experience.