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RSS in Plain English--Really Simple to Understand too!

Anne Abrams's picture
2007 03 May

Okay, I admit it.

I hear alot about RSS and I know what it stands for, but when I click on the icon for RSS feeds off a website, it looks like code to me.

Luckily, I just was forward this really simple to understand video (from CommonCraft) on how it works.

Video: RSS in Plain English

Let me know what you think of it.  And I'll let you know if I actually do it!

 Anne

    Memo Cordova's picture

    RSS is nothing without...

    Great video, Anne! Yes, by itself RSS is all gobbledygook and not all that useful--but get a news reader like Google Reader or Bloglines and then watch it come alive into beautiful and informative web content.

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    Submitted by Memo Cordova (not verified) on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 7:37am.
    Daniel's picture

    The guys at Commoncraft did

    The guys at Commoncraft did a great job with this video. It's a very simple explanation of RSS but it gets the message across remarkably well.

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    Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on Sun, 05/27/2007 - 7:10pm.
    Dan's picture

    Video for wikis

    By the way the same group created another video but this time about wikis. You can find it here:

    http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

    It doesn't have the same punch as the RSS video but it's still quite good.

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    Submitted by Dan (not verified) on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 11:46pm.