The why and the how-to of RSS.

Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Monday, October 23, 2006.

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IN TODAY’S SHOW:

  • Podcast ID
  • Voice man Lee Hopkins
  • Requests to leave us audio feedback on our comment line (number below)
  • Bryan’s exciting news!
  • RSS - what is it?
  • Benefits of RSS
  • How to spot an RSS feed. One way is to look for this icon:
    RSS icon
  • “NEW COMM ROAD MAP”: Using RSS to personalize your My Yahoo homepage
    1. Go to My.yahoo.com.
    2. Create a Yahoo ID or Yahoo mail account if you don’t have one and log in.
    3. Go to CBSNews.com.
    4. Click on the XML RSS feeds icon.
    5. You could Click on the + MyYahoo icon, but for purposes of this exercise, click on the orange XML button next to World.
    6. You’ll be taken to a page that ends in .rss. In this case: http://www.cbsnews.com/feeds/rss/world.rss.
    7. Highlight this address and copy it to your clipboard.
    8. Go to your My Yahoo page and click on the + Add Content tab.
    9. Next to the text box click Add RSS by URL link.
    10. You’ll be taken to a page with another text box. Paste the URL that you copied from CBSNews.com and click Add.
    11. You’ll see a page that says Get World News: CBSnews.com on My Yahoo! and shows the latest stories in that RSS content feed.
    12. Click the + Add To My Yahoo! button.
    13. You’ll receive a confirmation that this feed has been added.
    14. Go to your My Yahoo homepage. Scroll down and look for the block that says World News: CBSNews.com and has five links. You can click on any of those links and you’ll be taken directly to the story.
    15. You can also move this feed box to the top of the page and personalize this page.
    16. Have a feed you don’t like? Look for the small X at the top right of a content box. Click that and the feed will be deleted.

  • “NEW COMM ROAD CITATION”: FoxNews.com

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Running time: 19 minutes, 53 seconds

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