Post on 22-Apr-2015
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BLOG JA:
Exploring Jane Austen blogs and how to make the most of them
with RSS
What are blogs?
• ‘Weblogs’ or ‘blogs’ are publicly available web pages, with personal views and links expressing news, opinions and observations, usually on a specific topic or theme.
http://www.laredogroup.com/glossresourc.asp
What are blogs?
• Updates are published regularly and appear in the form of “posts”.
• Each post is an individual news story, similar to an article in a journal
• Older posts are archived in reverse chronological order, and appear as “archives” in a side panel on the blog
MANY topics …
• Literature• Health • Sport• News• Professional – for many
professions• If you have an interest, there is
probably a blog….
New Post
New Post
Archives
Other typical features of blogs
• Blurb about the author
Other typical features of blogs
• Blogroll or ‘links’– to other blogs
Banner
Access to other
resources
Feeds
Search
Other typical features of blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Some great related blogs
Some great related Blogs
Some great related Blogs
Some great related blogs
Some great J.A blogs
Texts of Jane’s novels, juvenilia, works of contemporaries….
•Biography•Georgian era•Regency era•Victorian era•Art & Architecture•Much, much more…
Links to icons, screen captures from
movies, fan sites
Professional and amateur podcasts of all the novels,
and sources about the novels.
• English culture• Crime• Cookery • Fashion• Furnishings • Much, much more …
Resources for high school and
undergraduate college students
Jane’s novels as they are presented on websites and
other blogs
A wealth of literary resources about JA
and her contemporaries
Why I have not included certain sites….
• Pemberley.com and other mega-sites
• JASA• Jane Austen Centre• No feeds …..
To find blogs …
• Use a Blog Search• http://blogsearch.google.com/• MOSTLY use blogs to find other blogs
• Now lets introduce
•RSS
• The old way: visit many blogs or websitesevery day
• The new way: feed all the new posts to your RSS reader
RSS is like reading journals…
• Lots of them!
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
From “Push” to “Pull”
My Google Reader
Google Reader
• http://www.google.com/reader
Google Reader
• Sign in with free account
RSS Feed: Subscribing
• 1. Find a blog.2. Copy the URL or link.
• 3. Go to Google Reader.• 4. Click on Add Subscription.• 5. Paste in the link. • 6. Organize the new feed into
your folders or subject structure.
Step 1 (Find a blog)
Step 2 (Copy RSS Link)
Step 3 (Go to Reader)
Step 4 (Add Feed)
• Click on Add subscription
• This expands to give you space to paste the URL.
Step 5 (Paste Link)
• Paste the URL in the box, then click ADD.
Step 7 (Sort Feed)
Manage subscriptions allow you to group feeds
under folders.
Step 6 (Sort Feed)
• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.
• TIP: When you view a folder, you see the newest items for the topic all integrated together.
Subscribing
• Some pages offer buttons you can just click on to add a feed.
• This allows you to skip steps 3-6!
RSS Feed: Subscribing
• 1. Find a feed.• 2. Find RSS button, and click• 3. Select your RSS Reader.• 4. Organize the new feed into
your folders or subject structure.
Step 1 (Find Webpage)
Step 2 (RSS button)
Step 3 (Select your RSS Reader)
Step 4 (Organise feed into subject structure)
• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.
Credits:
Kay Schneider with slides from
Britt Watwood, VCU
“Using RSS Personally and Professionally”Patricia F. Anderson, U. Mich
“RSS Demystified”Perter Bromberg, SJRLC
Ashwini, Social Media Evangelist