What RSS does
BBC: a listing of the RSS feeds of the BBC (British Broadcasting Company)
CBC: RSS feeds provided by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company)
Steve Rubel: a blog which "explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations"
Wikipedia: an free online encyclopedia, available in many languages, written and edited collaboratively by volunteers
How to use RSS
Mozilla: an open-source software provider, whose programs include Firefox (a browser) and Thunderbird (an email/RSS reader program)
RSS webpage: RSS feeds provided by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company)
FeedFinder: search using keywords or URLs to find feeds that match your interests
Syndic8.com: search for feeds within categories or using keywords
News Feed Finder: search for feeds by category or keyword
RSS feeds webpage: RSS feeds available from the Hennepin County Library in Minnesota
RSS and Librarians
blogs (BlogBib): an online annotated bibliography of blogs, focusing on library-related blogs
Library Stuff: a library blog with resources to keep librarians current in their fields
LISNews: a blog where librarians post with links to cuurent issues, websites, articles, etc. of interest to librarians.
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: similar to the above, with an emphasis on current awareness for academic librarians
Catalogablog: a blog with an emphasis on cataloguing, metadata, subject access, etc.
here (New Architect magazine - "Internet strategies for technology leaders"): an article called "Making Headlines with RSS" by Jonathan Eisenzopf - includes information and samples of code to create a site with RSS feeds.
LISFeeds.com: a website where the RSS feeds of many library blogs and other LIS sites are aggregated
RSS and Libraries
Yahoo! Canada Portal: an example of a web portal, which directs users to other information, and uses RSS to update content
Hennepin County Library: a site listing the available RSS feeds from the Hennepin County Library in Minnesota
University of Kent: a page in the University of Kent website where users can subscribe to an RSS feed broadcasting new acquisitions
HubMed: allows users to search the PubMed database and subscribe to an RSS feed of their search terms, so that new articles in the database, which contain the search terms are sent to users automatically
PubMed: free archive of full-text articles from life science and biomedical journals
National Library of Medicine: website of the American National Library of Medicine, which puts out the PubMed database
University of Saskatchewan Library: a page in the University of Saskatchewan Library's website, where users can subscribe to RSS feeds of various academic electronic journals
Problems
RSS 1.0: technical specifications of RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0, described by web.resource.org
W3C: homepage of the World Wide Web Consortium
Internet Engineering Task Force: homepage of the Internet Engineering Task Force, developer of Atom, a rival format to RSS
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