This is an interesting discussion covering many topics in one thread.
But I have a suggestion for Jude - if you are trying to give a simple
explanation of RSS, don't use the word metadata and especially not
without an attempt to define it. In your enthusiasm you confound the
problem instead of
as someone who is married to a journalist I think that distinction and
identification will become less and less an issue. I think most younger
journalist are realizing that most of what they write for print will go
online. Additionally it is usually easier to get a piece online than in
print. When
Am I the only person wondering what RSS stands for?
I confess I am only dipping in and out of the DDN list anyhow so may
have missed something - or perhaps its something that everyone knows
(Maybe I'll suddenly realise as soon as I click on the send button to
confess my ignorance ..)
I don't
Hi Pam,
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's that little XML button
that you see often on blogs and news website. The button links to an RSS
feed, which is a type of code that summarizes what's been posted on that
site. If you cut and paste the RSS feed into email software like
Hi, Pamela,
RSS stands for really simply syndication. It's like a wrapper of some
basic metadata that is automatically put around units of content on the
Web. These content units might, for instance, be a blog entry or a news
story. The metadata that's captured is some standard info about the
Here is some information that may help you.
NEWS: RESOURCES :
INTERNET: MEDIA:
What Is RSS? RSS Explained : RSS Resource Links
http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/
wa?A2=ind0412L=NET-GOLDP=R65921I=-3
A shorter URL for the above link:
http://snipurl.com/c7qk
From the above post, here is this:
I'd also recommend Wikipedia's entries for RSS and podcasting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28protocol%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
ac
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media Community
acarvin @ edc . org
This message is cheering and amusing to me at the same time. There has
been, if you will pardon a divergent use of a phrase, a digital divide
about the Wikipedia between academic purists on the one hand who consider
the Wikipedia very suspect because since anyone can change its contents,
it must
Thanks, David, I appreciate it. Despite what many critics say about
wikipedia, when it comes to Internet-related subjects like podcasting,
there are few, if any, resources that do a better job defining the
concept than wikipedia. It's often because the people involved in
developing the
That may indeed be true, but Rosen's point was that the majority of
staff there still seem themselves as print journalists rather than
online journalists -ac
Ja ten Doesschate wrote:
POI in relation to these comments - According to a Times editor, The New
York Times [bastion of white upper
, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: [DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?
That may indeed be true, but Rosen's point was that the majority of
staff there still seem themselves as print journalists rather than
online journalists -ac
Ja ten Doesschate wrote:
POI in relation
Well... as sort of an 'online journalist', I might be able to add value
to this.
Journalism is journalism. The media through which journalism works is
largely irrelevant except when it comes to audience. So it's not about
'online journalism' or 'print journalism' at all, it's simply about
'online
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