Deprecated: RSS Feeds

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

  • GlueX Wiki: Recent changesRss.gif
  • Subversion repository: file check-in'sRss.gif
    Note that the link above is for the entire repository. A separate feed exists for each node of the directory tree of the repository. These are useful if you are only interested in a subset of the directories. See the "XML" buttons on the repository browser page for links to these subsidiary feeds.
  • Portal Calendar: new and changed eventsRss.gif
  • Science Policy News from AIP: FYIRss.gif

Q & A

  1. What is an RSS feed?
  2. What are the advantages of using RSS feeds?
    • Separation of information from your email stream.
    • Ability to browse topics and mark them as read without actually reading them.
    • Accumulates several information steams into one location.
  3. What are the disadvanges of using RSS feeds?
    • You have to set up an RSS feed reader.
    • You may sometimes skip information in the feed that you would have liked to have read.
    • Creates another thing on your computer to check.
  4. What is a good RSS feed reader to use?
    • Many options exist, among them:
      1. The JLab Insight web page ( https://misportal.jlab.org/InsightWebProject )
        Down in the lower corner of your own personal Insight page is a box called “RSS News Feed”. One of those tiny boxes in the title bar of the box is called “Edit”. Click on that and you can paste one or both of the above mentioned feeds URL’s as part of the “Add a Feed” form. Then links to the posts/comments will appear automatically on your Insight page, most recent first.
      2. 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.
      3. Google Reader
        What I have been using. Just google “google reader”. Requires a google account. Their instructions are better than what I could write.
      4. 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.
      5. Other options
        There are a lot of them. See this article for a sample.