Posts Tagged ‘rss’

22
Sep
2017

news RSS

categories: Digital literacy, Facebook, information technology, Twitter

Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News

 David Nield  9/08/17 11:53am

What is RSS?

For the completely uninitiated, RSS is just a standardized way of presenting text and images in a feed that can be used by a variety of apps and web services. It is just like how Twitter has a standard way of presenting text and images that all the various Twitter clients understand.

As we’ve already alluded to, when you follow the news via social media, you’re relying on other people bringing you the news, unless you’re following individual news stories. RSS is like getting your newspaper of choice delivered to the front door rather than relying on heading down to the local bar to listen in on what everyone’s shouting about.

With only one page to visit rather than dozens to catch up on, you can spend less time aimlessly drifting around and more time catching up on the posts that matter.

It’s not just for news

Basically anything you might want to keep track of and not miss because of the cacophony of voices on social media,

The always-useful IFTTT (If This Then That) is fluent in RSS, giving you even more ways to make use of RSS. You can build applets to generate tweets or Facebook posts or Instagram updates from a particular feed. Zapier is another service that can take RSS feeds from anywhere in the web and plug them into other apps and platforms.

Finding an RSS reader

Digg Reader, Feedly, Panda is a clean and relatively young news aggregator,

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more on RSS in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=rss

03
Mar
2016

best podcasts

categories: Digital literacy, digital storytelling, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, hybrid learning, information technology, instructional technology, mobile learning, podcasting, student-centered learning

how to subscribe to a podcast:

These are the best podcasts you should be listening to right now

Rafi Letzter

http://www.businessinsider.com/38-best-podcasts-in-the-world-2016-3

Podcasts have become excellent sources for great storytelling, interviews, and journalism.

From a few minutes to more than an hour, podcasts give content creators a chance to speak directly to their listeners free of distractions, and give listeners a new way to expand their minds during their daily commutes.

  • Technology

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/codebreaker

https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/

https://gimletmedia.com/show/surprisingly-awesome/

http://www.thesmokingtire.com/tag/podcast/

http://songexploder.net/

http://99percentinvisible.org/

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538677/note-to-self

http://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/whats-the-point/

  • Culture

http://www.buzzfeed.com/anotherround

http://www.storycentral.org/strangers/

http://themoth.org/about/programs/the-moth-podcast

http://thememorypalace.us/

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest.html

http://callyourgirlfriend.com/

http://www.wtfpod.com/

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-national-podcast

http://negroswithapodcast.com/category/podcasts/

http://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/

  • Science

http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

http://www.storycollider.org/

http://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538045/freakonomics-radio

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html

http://www.startalkradio.net/

  • Innovation

http://voxtheweeds.slate.libsynpro.com/

http://longform.org/podcast

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510298/ted-radio-hour

http://www.debbiemillman.com/designmatters/

http://themessagepodcast.com/

http://politics.uchicago.edu/pages/axefiles

Podcast – The Tim Ferriss Show

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/

 

28
May
2014

Social Media: 4 Blog Tools to Get Your Articles In Front of More Blog Readers

categories: social media

4 Blog Tools to Get Your Articles In Front of More Blog Readers

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/4-blogging-tools-to-get-more-blog-readers/

#1: Reveal Content After Shares

Social Locker is a clever WordPress plugin that allows you to show part of a post, and then ask your readers for a social share in order to see the rest. It’s a win-win exchange. Your reader gets access to additional content and you get the social shares you need to reach more people.

#2: Make It Easy for Readers to Share

SumoMe (a WordPress plugin) helps streamline that process for your readers. When a reader highlights a sentence in your article, SumoMe opens a window that’s pre-populated with the highlighted passage—along with Twitter and Facebook share icons. You let your visitors share the most interesting bits of your post with a single click.

#3: Automatically Distribute Articles

Dlvr.it offers a number of ways to automatically publish your blog posts to popular social platforms. But did you know it can publish Google Alerts in your RSS feed?

#4: Share Evergreen Content

The Evergreen Post Tweeter WordPress plugin selects older articles from your archives and tweets them to your audience for renewed exposure.