Building and Using an RSS Feed Reader to Find Story Ideas
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Building and Using an RSS Feed Reader to
Find Story Ideas
Presented By:
Joe Beckman, CMC Cochair
Drinking Through a Fire Hose
Really Simple Syndication
• “RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails.” —About.com
• “RSS feeds are a way to keep tabs on news sites, blogs or anyone else publishing in the abbreviated notification-oriented format, eliminating the need to revisit websites throughout the day and manually scan for new content.” —Time Magazine Tech
• What’s all this stuff on my computer screen? Where did the pictures go? —Norma Savio
Sifting and Communicating Ideas• Netvibes – Popular for iGoogle fans. www.netvibes.com
• Feedly – Works like Google Reader; the views are customizable and it syncs with various apps. www.feedly.com
• NewsBlur – Looks and feels like a desktop reader; it’s free up to 64 sites. www.newsblur.com
• The Old Reader – Has great sharing features. www.theoldreader.com
Sifting and Communicating Ideas• Digg Reader – New feed reader from social news site Digg. www.digg.com/login
• Pulse – Is image-driven and visual. www.pulse.me
• Tiny Tiny RSS – Software that allows you to build your own RSS Reader. www.tt-rss.org
• Skimr – Allows you to easily skim headlines. www.skimr.co
• Curata – Filters your content. www.curata.com
Sifting is the Important Part
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Questions?