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
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. 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