RSS Feeds (Library Media Class: Week 1, Additional Assignment)

Task: Find about five websites that offer RSS feeds.

My list includes six sites from widely differing organizations.

1. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/default.stm
The RSS icon link is in a box near the bottom of the BBC's home news page.
Subscribing allows feeds, alerts to email or mobile phone, subscription to podcasts, articles or newsletters. Subscribers can choose by subject or region and to receive text or video.

2. netflix.com
Members can get an RSS feed to their personal queue, past rental activity, to recommendations from other members or reviews from members or professional critics. The feed can be limited to public information such as the top 100 rentals or new releases, or it can be personalized.

3. uua.org/rss/index/shtml
The website home for Unitarian Universalists is updated regularly with news of interest to Unitarians and friends. UUA also publishes a magazine called the UUWorld which is available digitally by FeedBurner.

4. lanl.gov
Los Alamos National Laboratory's extensive website offers interested readers the chance to "create a custom RSS feed" from LANL's public relations department. On the "News Media Home," there is an RSS icon near the bottom of the page. Subscriptions can be customized per specific organizations within the Lab, by topic, by number and frequency of stories, the source of the news, and by the format of the news story. (See www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/syndicate.main)

5. sierratradingpost.com
Sierra Trading Post is a discount retail active wear clothing and outdoor equipment supplier. At www.sierratradingpost.com there is a box toward the bottom of the page on the left where you can click on "Sierra Blogging Post." Clicking there takes you to blog.sierratradingpost.com where the blog entries are posted. You can drop by and read or subscribe. Subscribers can choose to get feeds of the blog's posts and subsequent comments, or just the posts.

6. Knitters Anonymous
Knitters and yarn enthusiasts might be interested enough to read about other knitters' experiences on the knitanon blog at www.knitanon.com/blog/. The subscription can be streamlined by interest or by a limited number of regions. The creators and most of those involved are in the Bay area. The photos from the website, plus more photos, are archived on flickr.com.