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RSS News Feeds available for the site
There are a wide range of news feeds available to help you track the content and discussions in the KnowNet site. Some of these are listed at the bottom of this page. A more extensive explanation of news feeds is available as a help topic in our weblogs.
- New! Full-content feed with filecasting now available
- We have recently extended the features of our RSS feeds to include an RSS-2 feed from which you can follow the blogging and discussion from a news-reader - including accessing file attachments ('podcasting'). See below for more info. We have also added a default feed for the site, using that format.
RSS News Feeds are a special, compact format for syndicating updates about content. They are not intended for displaying in web browsers, and will generally look broken if you try to look at them in a web browser like Internet Explorer. To use a News Feed link, you first need to have a 'News Reader' program installed on your own computer, or be registered at online News Aggregation services.
The advantage of news feeds is that they are very compact, so they load very quickly into the news reader programs. You can track many news feeds from one view in a news reader, allowing you to track many sources of content in one convenient and speedy interface. News readers also let you 'aggregate' - combine several feeds into one; this lets you create custom updates for tracking the content you want to know about.
If you have a news reader program, you can copy the URL for a news feed link and paste it into a new subscription in your news reader.
Some of our news feeds are available through special links in the content itself. Do not try to click those links; remember - news feeds are in a special format that is not meant for web browsers. Right-click the link for the feed you want to subscribe to, and choose 'Copy Shortcut', 'Copy link to clipboard', etc ( the exact wording depends on your browser). This places the URL for the news feed on your clipboard for pasting into other programs.
For instance, all our weblogs have a 'Syndicate this weblog' sidebar (usually near the bottom of the right-hand side of the weblog pages). You can choose either to get updates about new weblog posts only, or to include new comments and discussion as well. There is also a choice between 'Atom' and 'RSS' news feeds; if you do not know what Atom is, we recommend you use the RSS feed. In the near future, we will be adding RSS links in our weblogs for tracking posts and discussions for particular categories or authors. These will be shown when you are viewing lists of posts for that category / author (by clicking in the categories or authors sidebars of the weblog).
Within the site content, some areas which have weblogs or discussion points nested within them will display a list of recent posts at the bottom of the page. In those cases there will also be an RSS link for a news feed giving recent discussion items or weblog entries from anywhere within that folder.
You may also see links for RSS feeds for single discussion items or blog entries; these feeds give updates on any further discussion 'within' the reply threads of that item. They can be useful if you want to track a particular thread, or perhaps use a news aggregator to combine a large number of feeds.
Search results also display an RSS link; these feeds perform the search and return the results in RSS format so that you can check for new search results in a news reader.
Some site content areas may also display an RSS link in the 'Tools' portlet at the left hand side of the content display; these feeds would give updates on new content added to that part of the site.
Below is a list of some useful RSS feeds for the site:
Update on all blog posts and discussions anywhere within the site
New posts and discussion from The Wales-Wide Web, Graham Attwell's weblog.
New posts and discussion from KNotations, our technical/development weblog.
New posts and discussion from elearning2.0, Mike Malloch's non-technical weblog.
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