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This post is titled RSS, RDF, XML, Atom, Feeds 101 by author SoulJah.
Ok some of you have been asking me what in the world is RSS or what those 
or 
icon that you see everywhere on news sites and on some technology blogs. These my good readers, are called feeds, and depending on what file format they use, it can mean a lot of things. RSS stands for Rich Site Syndication, RDF stands for Resource Description Framework, Atom is the emerging new specification that aims to unify all those existing specifications out there. And all these are, of course, built upon XML.
Let's take a brief history rundown. From O'Reilly's XML.com:
So what that means for you users? Just look for those or symbols, copy their link address, and just plug it into your newsreaders.
What's the purpose you say? Can you imagine where all your news posts, your blog entries, all updates on your site are delivered to the readers of your website? They will have the RSS or Atom feed links from a site in their newsreaders, and these newsreaders will then check for updates at the times you specify. These RSS feeds will be lightweight, most of the times under 50 kb, and these will link to the post itself. You can be a news troll (if you plug in good news sources like CNN and BBC or AP World News or Fark) and read and post news on your own site as it is just posted by the article author on the other side of the world.
Currently, I have news feeds from b0g, GetWired, Slashdot, The Register and of course FARK.
Ok let's talk newsreaders. I've been using Feedreaeder Alpha 2.6 Build 641 which can be found on http://www.feedreader.com. Of course, backed up my guarantee of "SoulJah will not recommend crappy software!", I assure you, even though it's in Alpha, (this thing is not even Beta yet and it's stable as... a stable thing) it runs pretty well in your systray and pops out the pop up box telling you if its latest rounds of update checks has found a new news item. Just limit your news feeds to under 30 or 20 and let the pop up box stay for as brief as possible to not make you go nuts. The reason I recommend Feedreader is because it's easy to set up (you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a decent reader, with some asking you to install the .Net network thing!), it's fast, it's easy to navigate through, with miniscule amount of options to set up, it reads Atom feeds! Which is like, super! *giggles* I've been looking for a good newsreader that reads Atom feeds (while still using an older Feedreader build that doesn't support Atom feeds) and none are good enough for my standards. But after I upgraded to this new build, it seems faster, and it can read ATOM! Woohoo!
Why the big fuss over Atom feeds here? Because that's the only kind of feed that Blogger offers, which I have been praying for it to happen all these times. I'm a devout Blogger and seeing that they offered a feature that I have been envying from Movable Type for oh so long makes my heart filled with joy!
Well there's all there is to it.
or icon that you see everywhere on news sites and on some technology blogs. These my good readers, are called feeds, and depending on what file format they use, it can mean a lot of things. RSS stands for Rich Site Syndication, RDF stands for Resource Description Framework, Atom is the emerging new specification that aims to unify all those existing specifications out there. And all these are, of course, built upon XML.Let's take a brief history rundown. From O'Reilly's XML.com:
| A brief history But coders beware. The name "RSS" is an umbrella term for a format that spans several different versions of at least two different (but parallel) formats. The original RSS, version 0.90, was designed by Netscape as a format for building portals of headlines to mainstream news sites. It was deemed overly complex for its goals; a simpler version, 0.91, was proposed and subsequently dropped when Netscape lost interest in the portal-making business. But 0.91 was picked up by another vendor, UserLand Software, which intended to use it as the basis of its weblogging products and other web-based writing software. In the meantime, a third, non-commercial group split off and designed a new format based on what they perceived as the original guiding principles of RSS 0.90 (before it got simplified into 0.91). This format, which is based on RDF, is called RSS 1.0. But UserLand was not involved in designing this new format, and, as an advocate of simplifying 0.90, it was not happy when RSS 1.0 was announced. Instead of accepting RSS 1.0, UserLand continued to evolve the 0.9x branch, through versions 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and finally 2.0. What a mess. |
So what that means for you users? Just look for those
or symbols, copy their link address, and just plug it into your newsreaders.What's the purpose you say? Can you imagine where all your news posts, your blog entries, all updates on your site are delivered to the readers of your website? They will have the RSS or Atom feed links from a site in their newsreaders, and these newsreaders will then check for updates at the times you specify. These RSS feeds will be lightweight, most of the times under 50 kb, and these will link to the post itself. You can be a news troll (if you plug in good news sources like CNN and BBC or AP World News or Fark) and read and post news on your own site as it is just posted by the article author on the other side of the world.
Currently, I have news feeds from b0g, GetWired, Slashdot, The Register and of course FARK.
Ok let's talk newsreaders. I've been using Feedreaeder Alpha 2.6 Build 641 which can be found on http://www.feedreader.com. Of course, backed up my guarantee of "SoulJah will not recommend crappy software!", I assure you, even though it's in Alpha, (this thing is not even Beta yet and it's stable as... a stable thing) it runs pretty well in your systray and pops out the pop up box telling you if its latest rounds of update checks has found a new news item. Just limit your news feeds to under 30 or 20 and let the pop up box stay for as brief as possible to not make you go nuts. The reason I recommend Feedreader is because it's easy to set up (you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a decent reader, with some asking you to install the .Net network thing!), it's fast, it's easy to navigate through, with miniscule amount of options to set up, it reads Atom feeds! Which is like, super! *giggles* I've been looking for a good newsreader that reads Atom feeds (while still using an older Feedreader build that doesn't support Atom feeds) and none are good enough for my standards. But after I upgraded to this new build, it seems faster, and it can read ATOM! Woohoo!
Why the big fuss over Atom feeds here? Because that's the only kind of feed that Blogger offers, which I have been praying for it to happen all these times. I'm a devout Blogger and seeing that they offered a feature that I have been envying from Movable Type for oh so long makes my heart filled with joy!
Well there's all there is to it.
Posted by SoulJah at 1:07:00 PM
