1. The Basics of RSS What is RSS? Using Mozilla Firefox Live Bookmarks How to Manually Create a Feed Where to Find RSS Feeds RSS Resources

2. What is RSS? Really Rich Syndication Really Simple Syndication RDF Site Summary A simple, fast way to feed news and headlines to a user’s desktop Faster than clicking from web site to web site, or opening multiple emails

3. How to Recognize RSS Numerous websites offer RSS feeds: New York Times, USA Today, etc. Science, Nature, etc. Just Look for the bright orange XML or RSS icon

4. USA Today RSS Feeds

5. RSS icon in URL window

6. Underlying XML code Entangled Humpback Whale Rescued in Hawaiian Waters http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2581.htm Federal and state officials, along with local volunteers, teamed up to free a humpback whale from a life-threatening entanglement Monday. Members of the NOAA Fisheries Service and Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, and Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, along with the community-based Whale Disentanglement Network unraveled lines dragging 25 feet from the whale's mouth and freed the humpback whale, which was located off the north side of the island of Lana'i on Feb. 13. The whale was entangled in 5/8 inches and 3/4 inches diameter lines coming from the left side of its mouth. Two large red buoys and a smaller bullet buoy were part of the gear dragging from the whale, threatening the health of the animal. RSS News {79ed9be1-49b2-bfe0-c383-7784f1828f40} Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:53:17 GMT Item element Title element Link element Description element

7. Subscribe to a News Feed Using Mozilla Live Bookmarks Your bookmarks can be live news feeds from newspapers, blogs, websites, libraries, etc. You only need one tool – Mozilla Firefox Browser

8. Mozilla Live Bookmarks page http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/livebookmarks.html

9. Add A Feed to Live Bookmarks Open up Mozilla Firefox On toolbar, choose Bookmarks>Manage Bookmarks Your list of bookmarks appears on left-hand side of the bookmarks manager page

10. Add A Feed to Live Bookmarks Next, find a Web page with an XML or RSS icon 1.Click on XML icon 2.Highlight the URL for the feed 3.Go to Bookmark Manager 4.Click on File > New Live Bookmark 5.Copy the URL for the feed from the web site

11. Here’s Your New Feed! From the Browser Toolbar Go to Bookmarks Click Manage Bookmarks New feed appears in list of Bookmarks Highlight the new feed and the headlines appear to the right Click on a headline to get the full story Beauty of live bookmarks is you choose which headline to read when you want to read it. Danger is you could spend all day monitoring the news!

12. Add A Feed to Live Bookmarks Second Easy Way 1.Click RSS icon in browser window 2.Dialog Box appears: “Add Live Bookmark” 3.Choose where to file new live bookmark 4.I set up a folder in My Bookmarks titled Live bookmarks

13. Add a Feed to Live Bookmarks Third Easy Way: 1.Open up Mozilla Firefox 2.On the Browser Toolbar click on Bookmarks 3.Click on Manage Bookmarks 4.Click on File > New Live Bookmark 5.Dialog Box appears 6.Enter URL of the feed 7.Click OK and voila- 8.Your feed appears in Bookmarks list!

14. A cool extension to Mozilla Firefox – adds nice style to your news feeds Help getting started – Sage Wiki community at: http://sage.wikicities.c om/wiki/Getting_Starte d

15. Sage extension

16. Syndicate Your Content: c reate an RSS Feed First section: Second section: contains main news item: Third section: closes the xml file

17. Where to Find RSS Feeds NOAA - http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/news/rss.html Other Federal Agencies –Firstgov.gov- U.S. Government RSS Library Newspapers, Magazines and Journals Blogs – Bloglines.com Libraries – customized feeds for special areas of interest, new books, current articles RSS Search Engines

18. RSS Resources SearchEngineWatch – “Making an RSS Feed” http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271 MyYahoo - add news feeds Webcontent.gov/webcontent/technology/rss.shtml RSS 2.0 Specs from Harvard Law Berkman Center - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Explanation of RSS from Storm Predictoin Center: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.html Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom By Ben Hammersley (O’Reilly)Ben Hammersley What Are Syndication Feeds By Shelley Powers (O’Reilly )Shelley Powers Mary.Lou.Cumberpatch@noaa.gov, 301-713-2600 ext. 129Mary.Lou.Cumberpatch@noaa.gov