RSS is a family of XML-based Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "channel") includes full or summarized text plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content quickly and automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.
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Validate RSS and Atom Documents
Use an online validator to check your RSS and Atom documents.
O'Reilly and Associates (2005). Articles>Information Design>Standards>RSS
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RSS, also known as rich site summary or real simply syndication, arrived on the scene a number of years ago, but was only recently embraced by webmasters as a means to effectively syndicate content. RSS Feeds provide webmasters and content providers an avenue to provide concise summaries to prospective readers. Thousands of commercial web sites and blogs now publish content summaries in an RSS feed. Each item in the feed typically contains a headline; article summary and link back to the online article.
Small Business Software (2007). Articles>Information Design>XML>RSS
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I’ve now seen firsthand that RSS feedreaders, or news aggregators, truly can provide the ability to literally scan hundreds of site updates and headlines in a matter of seconds, letting me know when those sites have updated posts or news. Depending on the software used, the user can be notified by a bubble popping up, a sound, or the headlines appearing in a list with a right click mouseover on the aggregator’s system tray icon, for example.
Kaiser, Shirley E. Brainstorms and Raves (2003). Articles>Information Design>XML>RSS
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Some general notes on RDF, its history and prospects, and a Grand Challenge to the RDF community.
Bray, Tim. Aaron Swartz Weblog (2008). Articles>Information Design>XML>RSS
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Hiding Content in Your RSS Feed
I’ve been doing a bit of research lately on creating RSS-only content for my website – that is, content that shows up in my RSS feed and nowhere else.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>CSS>RSS
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How Do You Manage Your RSS Feeds?
Some feeds are only skim worthy, while others I read word-for-word. Still, 90 feeds is really more than I can realistically keep up with. The question of which feeds to unsubscribe from plagues me. How long does one subscribe to a feed before deciding it's not worthwhile?
Loring, Sheila. Scriptorium (2009). Articles>Information Design>XML>RSS
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The Atom API: Publishing Web Content with XML and HTTP
The Atom API is an emerging interface for editing content. The interface is RESTful and uses XML and HTTP to define an editing scheme that's easy to implement and extend. History, basic operation, and applications to areas outside weblogs will be covered.
Gregorio, Joe. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Web Design>Metadata>RSS
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PHP and XML -- Reusing Other People's Information On The Web
Using Magpie RSS, we will discuss ways to take publicly available information from web-based sources and reuse them on our websites. The session will also feature an overview of ways to pull information from web services such as Amazon.com.
Hastings, Robin. XML 2006 (2006). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>RSS
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How To Drive Free, Massive Traffic Using Simple RSS 
This report is going to show you a couple of brief, but extremely powerful secrets to increase the traffic to your website. RSS drives frequent search engine (spider) visits and that translates to higher search engine rankings.
Rhodes, John S. and Matthew W. Rhodes. Wordpreneur (2007). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>RSS
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Toward Expressive Syndication on the Web
Syndication systems on the Web have attracted vast amounts of attention in recent years. As technologies have emerged and matured, there has been a transition to more expressive syndication approaches; that is, subscribers and publishers are provided with more expressive means of describing their interests and published content, enabling more accurate information filtering. In this paper, we formalize a syndication architecture that utilizes expressive Web ontologies and logic-based reasoning for selective content dissemination. This provides finer grained control for filtering and automated reasoning for discovering implicit subscription matches, both of which are not achievable in less expressive approaches. We then address one of the main limitations with such a syndication approach, namely matching newly published information with subscription requests in an efficient and practical manner. To this end, we investigate continuous query answering for a large subset of the Web Ontology Language (OWL); specifically, we formally define continuous queries for OWL knowledge bases and present a novel algorithm for continuous query answering in a large subset of this language. Lastly, an evaluation of the query approach is shown, demonstrating its effectiveness for syndication purposes.
Halaschek-Wiener, C. and J. Hendler. WWW 2007 (2007). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>RSS
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Comparing RSS Feeds to Social Networks 
Jakob Nielson and his research group, Nielsen Norman Group, have done it again – letting us know how users are actively perceiving and using social software for different business tasks. This research is important as the social web evolves so that we, as web content creators, know the best ways to present and offer different types of information, especially for corporate sites.
Gentle, Anne. Just Write Click (2009). Articles>User Experience>Social Networking>RSS
