1. Web Site Syndication Reading and Creating Syndicated Content Lisa Wolfisch US Census Bureau lisa.wolfisch@census.gov

2. How much time do you have?

3. Syndication allows you to get content without surfing to individual sites  Subscribe to sites you enjoy  Surf more efficiently, decrease spam, and prevent irritating pop-up ads  Add feed content to your web pages local headlines, weather reports...

4. Feed aggregators do the surfing for you  Feed aggregators manage subscriptions with a single application – also online aggregators like Meerkat from O’ReillyMeerkat  Can be integrated with a browser, or as a standalone application

5. Reading Feeds with Firefox

6. Firefox live bookmarks  Firefox will pick up site feeds referenced on a web page  The feed items become bookmarks that are updated by the browser

7. Feeds are popping up all over

8. Create XML files following a syndication specification  RSS is one specification in an XML format  Programs can create XML feeds for aggregators, or HTML for web site content RSS Headliner: http://www.webdevtips.com/RSS Headliner webdevtips/codegen/rss.shtml  Feeds can contain more than just headlines Product announcements Up to date statistics, caledar entries Audio files for MP3 players

9. Read more...  Cnet RSS Tutorial (has a nice video) http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10088_7-5143656-1.html  RSS Specification http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss  RSS in Government http://www.rssgov.com/