OXITEMS: RSS for news and events

1. Newsfeeds

• Many of us produce bits of information for consumption in various ways. The commonest way to do this is an RSS newsfeed.
• You'll recognize a site with news feeds, as they commonly use one of , and . If you hover over them your browser will tell you the URL of the newsfeed.
• If you click on the icon, you will get the list of items. Sometimes, this is displayed nicely; sometimes it is displayed as a page of markup (in an XML language).
• Examples: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk

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Sections in this document:

• 2. Reading newsfeeds
• 3. OXITEMS
• 4. Why use OXITEMS rather than build your own system?
• 5. OXITEMS: Overview
• 6. OXITEMS: Adding an item
• 7. Experimenting with OXITEMS
• 8. OXITEMS: Using the sandbox newsfeed
• 9. Examples of OXITEMS being used
• 10. Event items
• 11. OXPOINTS
• 12. Podcasting newsfeeds
• 13. Conclusions
• 14. More information