What is RSS?What is RSS?

Terms you associate with RSSTerms you associate with RSS

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With RSS, you can “subscribe” to many RSS feeds of headlines from different websites, and get “fed” all the new headlines from all of these sites in one integrated list, and quickly see what’s what. The place where your integrated list is created is called an RSS Reader, and it gathers all the headlines from all the sites you have subscribed to.

But what is it?But what is it?

A regularly updated file of news itemsA regularly updated file of news items In a structured formatIn a structured format Stored on a websiteStored on a website RSS readers (software) regularly poll the RSS readers (software) regularly poll the

file to get new versionsfile to get new versions RSS readers display new items as RSS readers display new items as

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Influenza news6th June – Bird flu …http://www....

5th June – New plans...http://www.....

Tuberculosis news6th June – TB outbreak …http://www....

4th June – New drug …http://www....

Malaria news6th June – New research.http://www....

4th June – Parasite …http://www.....

RSS Feeds

6th June – Bird flu … [FLU]http://www....6th June – TB outbreak …[TB]http://www....6th June – New research. [MAL]http://www....5th June – New plans... [FLU]http://www.....4th June – Parasite … [MAL]http://www.....4th June – New drug … [TB]http://www....

RSS Reader

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<channel> <title>Intellectual property and innovation</title> <description>Intellectual property as it relates to biomedical science…</description> <link>http://nimri.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/rss</link> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:51:18 +0100</lastBuildDate> <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:50:16 +0100</pubDate> <generator>FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.4) http://www.feedforall.com</generator> <item> <title>EU Presidency report sets out 'bio-economy' vision (pdf)</title> <description>The German Presidency has put forward a declaration.</description> <link>http://www.europabio.be/articles/cologne_paper.pdf</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">C0579EDE-9F10-4EC9-8822-DFBAD90881FF</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:50:16 +0100</pubDate> </item>

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Raw code – yuk!Raw code – yuk! To make it look nice you need a readerTo make it look nice you need a reader Or a feed that has styling integral to itOr a feed that has styling integral to it