RSS FEED 101

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WHAT IS AN RSS FEED?

An RSS feed is a format for delivering reguarly chaning web content a.k.a keeping you uptodate on your interests in one place instead of you having to look for them everywhere.

. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS to whoever wants it. An RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically.

 How is it used?

You can you use RSS feeds by using  Feed Reader or News Aggregator software that allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use. An RSS feed is  used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format

 Who uses it?

Anyone can use an RSS feed who has access to the internet.The Rss feed it is very useful who are very busy or organized. RSS feeds are all in one place and come to you instead of you having to find them. It's a time saver and a very useful tool if someone wants to give out quick updates to people

Would you/Do you use it?

I probably wouldn’t use it because I don’t have anything I want to keep updated on constantly, I do not use it , only place I could see using it if in my job I was required

  Can it be expanded upon?

I don’t think it can be expanded on due to it's main purpose is just to keep you uptodate, the only way it could possibly expand is if every site could use an rss feed without any problem.

 Is it outdated and a newer technology should be used instead?

From what I'm aware currently there is no other  technology out there that matches what the RSS feed does.

 Are there other ways it could be used in libraries?

What types of libraries could benefit from its use? Libraries can use this to update on news on the library like event's or new books, sudden closings or things like that. Public libraries and possibly academic libraries would be the ones to gain most from this