more info about RSS
Posted by Kristen Treglia on May 29, 2009
As detailed in my previous post on the subject, RSS reader applications can save a great deal of time and enhance productivity by providing a simple way to monitor novel content from a great many Web-based resources. 
In addition to allowing users to easily subscribe to and view current content using RSS feeds, RSS reader applications, such as the FeedDemon desktop application for Windows, often provide advanced capabilities for sorting and searching RSS-enabled information.
Produced the a company called NewsGator, FeedDemon is a free and provides features that users who have subscribed to a lot of RSS feeds in different subject areas will appreciate. It allows users to organize RSS feeds into folders, “flag” important posts for future viewing, perform keyword searches on feeds, and create saved searches to automatically monitor RSS-feeds from many different Web sites for particular keywords.
I’ve demonstrated some of these features in this week’s screencast.
Like e-mail applications, most RSS-readers have the same general features and stand out in certain areas. FeedDemon seems to have some excellent reporting capabilities. Google Reader provides integration with the other Google services for sharing feeds and searching for RSS-enabled Web sites. I will use NetNewsWire (Mac) for my demonstration next week.
What is your favorite RSS reader application? What do you think of “FeedDemon”?
-Jim
(behnke@fordham.edu)
Additional Links of Interest:
American Psychological Association’s RSS feeds to online journals
The Free Library: find RSS feeds to academic journals, newspapers, magazines and more either by using the search feature or selecting a topic from listed categories
List of RSS feeds to American Chemical Society Publications
List of RSS feeds to American Meteorological Society Publications
RSS feeds to:
Scientific American
Discover
Christian Science Monitor
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
