follow that blog!
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Follow that Blog!A Guide to Keeping up with Blogs,
News and Tweetswith Free Resources
Kel KarpinskiDecember 12, 2011
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What is a blog?
• short for "web-log" or "weblog"o coined by Jorn Barger in 1997
• blog coined by Peter Merholz in 1999 when he split weblog to read "We blog"
• OED says "A frequently updated web site consisting of personal observations, excerpts from other sources, etc., typically run by a single person, and usually with hyperlinks to other sites; an online journal or diary"
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So what is RSS then?• "RDF Site Summary"
• commonly referred to as "Really Simple Syndication" • RSS feed is a way of providing online content that is
frequently updated such as news or blogs
• the information in a RSS feed gets published once but can be viewed by many different programs
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You can tell if a blog or website has an RSS feed by looking for this icon
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Or sometimes...
it'll look like this
or this
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Blog readers(also called RSS aggregators or feed readers)
• collect all of your blogs, news and sometimes even tweets in one location
• automatically updates so you don't have to manually check each website
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Google Reader
www.google.com/reader
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www.my.yahoo.com
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www.netvibes.com
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Any questions?
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Thank you!