Descriptions and explanations

BBC page on RSS feeds –a useful walkthrough explanation of RSS feeds, how to use them and what they do.

Yahoo page on RSS feeds –Yahoo explains RSS and gives tips and services for making your own personal RSS page.

Ways to search for news and feeds

Syndic8 (search engine and directory for RSS feeds) –This is the place to come to find RSS and Atom news feeds on a wide variety of topics. Syndic8 has a community-driven effort to gather syndicated news headlines, a readable master list of syndicated news content, an XML list of syndicated news content, quality of server measurement of all feeds, with statistics and history, reviews and pointers to syndicated tools and sites, a very complete set of web services, a plan to evangelize sites to syndicate their content, a categorization system which uses existing schemes, articles and tutorials on syndication

NewsIsFree–NewsIsFree is an online news aggregator. They carry the broadest selection of high quality news sources and also provide headlines from sites which do not provide RSS feeds. Their basic services, such as news search and portal are FREE (supported by advertising).

Google Search for News Readers –Google’s comprehensive search engine for finding news feeds and RSS readers and aggregators.

FaganFinder page on RSS feeds –anything and everything about RSS feeds. Fagan Finder is a huge source of news information and RSS feeds and also features a list of aggregators, describes RSS in detail, and other useful services.

Aggregators and XML tools

Firefox plug-in Sage –Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox.

NewsGator –Get news, sports, entertainment and other information on a single Web site with NewsGator Online. The powerful RSS aggregator is available from any computer and delivers personalized information from Web sites and blogs. This free sevice allows you to create your own personalized website comprised of the blogs, news headlines and other RSS feeds you would like to see regularily. No more searching the web, get the content you want, when you want it!

Bloglines –Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it's FREE!

Annotated list of RSS Parsing Programs (XML to HTML-Javascript converters) –a fully explained list of programs to aid in converting XML into readable HTML.

Google Search for RSS Parsing Programs

Maricopa RSS2JS Build Page- Maricopa RSS2JS Build Page to create code you can paste right into an HTML page! Just insert the XML URL and define your parameters and your HTML is instantly created.

p3k.org - this program puts the HTML in a framed box.

Miscellaneous LINKS

Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries, by Jay Bhatt –useful resource on how to make RSS feeds work for the academic community.

The Onion RSS Feeds –Fun news feeds from the Onion!

PPT, SRA Midwest April 2006 –A PowerPoint presentation by Rick Francis on the accessibility and use of RSS feeds and Portals in the research field.

This page was modified on March 11, 2008 .