What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care?. This 12-part tutorial is a major revision and expansion of an article I originally published Oct. 18, 2003 under the title "What Is RSS and Why Should You Care?"

Please note that this tutorial reflects an important shift in terminology at CONTENTIOUS. This publication is transitioning from RSS feed to the more generic nickname webfeed. This shift is explained in Part 11.

(Read the tutorial's table of contents...) TUTORIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Introduction: What's New Online?
2. How Most Webfeeds Work
3. Main Advantage: Webfeeds Save You Time
4. Getting Started: You Need a Feed Reader
5. Subscribing to Webfeeds
6. Finding Good Webfeeds
7. For Publishers: Why Webfeeds Beat E-mail Newsletters
8. Publishing Your Own Webfeed
9. Content: What to Put on Your Webfeed
10. Webfeed Disadvantages
11. Why Do I Say "Webfeed" Rather than "RSS?"
12. The Big Picture for Webfeeds

Read on... and feel free to link to this resource or quote from it (with attribution, please). [Contentious Weblog]

10:02:00 PM

categories: Radio Fun, Web Analytics

 

Turn OneNote into RSS Aggregator.

Omar's been busy. Here he blogs about a new OneNote PowerToy. It turns OneNote into an RSS News Aggregator.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

7:01:00 PM

categories: Radio Fun

 

A Little Fun. You may not put much thought into the icons used on websites, but Ro London has. He's produced a nifty website called 300 images from 1800 sites, which includes a collection of tiny icons he collected from around the web -- arrows, buttons, print icons, comment bugs, mail icons, bullets, shopping cart/bag images. These are NOT for you to borrow or steal, but rather the site is meant to help designers brainstorm on their own web graphics project. It's a cool little site, and I thank my Poynter colleague Julie Moos for pointing it out to me. By steve@poynter.org (Steve Outing). [Poynter E-Media Tidbits]