“Really simple syndication”: surfing the Web through a barrel
August 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized |
When “surfing the net” for information on anything and everything, we almost need a butler to surf the web for us, to find the headlines we desire and hand them to us on a silver platter. That butler is the RSS.
RSS can either stand for “really simple syndication” or “rich site summary”. Its symbol is seen littered throughout the Internet.
RSS makes it easy to read lots of sites – from weblogs to major news sites – in very little time.
You simply decide which websites or topics you want to track (similar to the Google search engine), tell your RSS reader, then it will continually download all the latest headlines for you, saving you time by collecting them in one place for you to read over quickly.
This tool is handy for a MoJo journalist on the go. It helps to access information quickly, and can allow users to filter out the rubbish.
Another new multimedia tool: Twitter
One of the big developments in late 2007 was the concept of live reporting/blogging via the web or mobile phone.
This form of super-fast blogging is limited to 160 characters per post (similar to SMS), and each post is known as a “tweet”. Again, a very handy tool for a MoJo journalist.
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