It seems that most average users just slog from one familiar web site to another. If one regularly gathers data from the same spots, syndication is a really easy, if not obscure, option. The icon is hardly ever seen as large as the one to the right; however, one may exist on a lot of the areas you follow. RSS is automation at its best.Yesterday, I mentioned using RSS as a means to keep track of audio podcasts. If you, dear reader, follow my facebook wall, you will notice that I've started to share some of the audio I'm listening to each day. This is easily accomplished because references to media files may be enclosed in RSS.
Yet, Really Simple Syndication was initially developed to handle text and graphics. I am sure that you've got more to do than simply keep track of me. Yet, I will add just a few ways you could use RSS without browsing to my specific sites. I'd suggest Google Reader is probably a good online bet for those wishing to get started in this venture. There are stand alone software programs which do the same thing, but why make things more difficult? Each of the following addresses are specific feeds for some of my own constantly changing information.
my eJournal and images entries:
http://www.dennissylvesterhurd.com/blog/myejournalandimages.xml
my recent Flickr photo stream:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=43296902@N00〈=en-us&format=rss_200
my recent Facebook posted items:
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/share_posts.php?id=129400346&viewer=129400346&key=d95cc20ba0&format=rss20
my recent Flickr photos of my city:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=1146854&nsid=43296902@N00〈=en-us