ERIC Number: EJ806059
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Dec
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: 11
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1492-3831
58. RSS Windows Editors: First Impressions
Swettenham, Steve
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, v7 n3 p1-5 Dec 2006
An RSS feed is a list of topics made available from a webpage via a standard XML file format known as RSS, an abbreviation of either Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (Wikipedia, 2006). The end-user subscribes to their favorite Internet content site via RSS-aware software. Once subscribed, announcements with appropriate links are "pushed" from the publishing site whenever new material is added to that site. This allows notification of new content of possible interest, fed with anonymity to subscribers, and reduces email clutter. In this article, the author provides an evaluation report on the functionality of several RSS feed generators such as FeedSpring, ListGarden, RSS Builder, RSS Editor, and RSS Writer. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Internet, Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Distance Education, Online Courses, Computer Software, Web Sites
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada