Apr 30th, 2007
RSS in Plain English
So, I’ve been working on this new blogging class that I’m co-teaching with a colleague. She’s handling the intro on what blogs are and I’m going to talk about using feeds and RSS readers (aka news readers or news aggregators), as well as say a bit about how to start a blog. My goal with this presentation is to keep it as short and simple as possible, with as little text as possible. Seth Godin’s post on really bad powerpoint has inspired me, though I don’t know if I can keep it to 6 words or less per slide!
So, anyway, during my preparation for this class I recently came across a video that’s been making the rounds in tech/web/library blogs. Take a look at it below. It’s perfect. For my class, I should just basically shut up, show this video, and ask if there are any questions!
There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
Richard — This video is amazing! I have actually been wondering about how to use RSS. And, because of this video, I went and started a Google reader account. Your site was the first one I added
I wish we lived closer to you guys — I would totally take that class you’re teaching. Most of this blogging stuff is a total mystery to me.
I don’t know, Dan. From the looks of your site, it looks like you’re pretty blog-savvy!