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Revision as of 14:55, 22 November 2010

This is a list of RSS feeds that may be of interest to GlueX Collaborators and other members of the Hall D community.

Q & A

  1. What is an RSS feed?
  2. What are the advantages of using RSS feeds?
    • Well-suited for notifications or news articles where you skip over many items, but want to at least see titles of all the items.
      • Ability to browse topics, skipping unimportant articles and picking out the must-read ones.
      • Separation of these types of items from your email stream.
    • Accumulates several information steams into one location. The idea is to have a net decrease in the number of things on your computer that you have to check.
  3. What are the disadvanges of using RSS feeds?
    • You have to set up an RSS feed reader.
    • Content in readers may not be as richly formatted as in their "native" location.
  4. What is a good RSS feed reader to use?
    • Many options exist, among them:
      1. Thunderbird email client
        In Thunderbird you can create an account that can manage multiple RSS feeds. The two URL’s mentioned above are examples. In the “File” drop-down menu, select “New” and then “Account…”. The resulting Account Wizard has an option for “RSS News & Blogs”. Select that and create an account with the name of your choice. Click on the new account in the left column and click on “Manage subscriptions” in the main frame. In the dialog box click on “Add” to enter the URL’s listed above. The feeds will appear in the new account just like email; you can read them, mark them as read, or delete them like regular email.
      2. Google Reader
        What I have been using. Just google “google reader”. Requires a google account. Their instructions are better than what I could write.
      3. MyYahoo! page
        You can add the RSS feed of your choice to your personal MyYahoo! page. Click on “Personalize this page”. Requires a Yahoo! account.
      4. Other options
        There are a lot of them. See this article for a sample.