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A couple of nice articles on RSS found through LLRX. RSS For Non-Techie Librarians by Steven M. Cohen (of Library Stuff) lives up to what title promises. He has some screen shots and a bibliography.

Personal RSS Aggregators by Jon Udell describes many of the programs to use with RSS feeds.

If you have a site providing an RSS feed you can provide a link tag to alert news readers that there is an RSS feed. This effort is being led by Mark Pilgrim.





- Rss Tool
Planet looks like a useful tool. No library related Planet sites yet.Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.It uses Mark...

- Library 'blogs
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click...

- Lisfeeds Portal
The LISFeeds portal by Steven M. Cohen is now available. "The LISFeeds Portal was created for those who like to keep up with library news via RSS but don't want to (or can't) download a news aggregator." He has a 'blog about the site, naturally....

- Rss
Information Outlook, vol. 6, no. 12, Dec. 2002 has the article "Using RSS: An Explanation and Guide" by Steven M. Cohen. Steven can be found every day at Library Stuff. The same issue also has "XML Under the Hood" by Davida Scharf....

- Rss
The RSS Valiadator checks RSS feeds. It works with RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0, but it is optimized for RSS 2.0 feeds. This ensures that the RSS feed is up to standards. It also recognizes elements from other name spaces, like Dublin Core....



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