Posts Tagged Google Reader

Hunting for podcasts

The activities for this week on podcasts required students of the LIBR 246 class under Prof. Debbie Faires to wear two hats, a consumer and a creator of podcasts. As a consumer of podcasts, we were asked to syndicate content using two methods. The first method is to use our RSS aggregator, in my case, [...]

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A really long post about RSS (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2)
I checked the discussion group of the class but nothing specific to the problem I have was posted. I had suspicion that a theme or plugin I installed, as I have been playing with trying out several themes and plugins for the blog, might have messed up my settings. Since I have [...]

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A really long post about RSS (Part 1)

Part 1 of 2
RSS is another example of how Web 2.0 technologies are changing how we gather and share information. Farkas in her book, Social software in libraries, provided a brief background of what RSS is all about. She traced its origin from Netscape’s tool of gathering content in 1999 and informs us that the [...]

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