Syndicating Content
Description: RSS Feeds, Podcasts, etc.
Complete list of Terms and Definitions for Syndicating Content
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| syndication | The process of making a summary of a Web sites information available to other Web sites and applications |
| Web feed | The list of items such as blog posts, news headlines and other frequently updated Web content, that are being shared |
| Feed reader | Apllications and devices that access web feeds of blogs and Web sites that have been subscribed to by a user and deliver any new content |
| RSS | Really simple syndication--one of the first and most popular types of Web feeds, contains a summary of information about a blog or Web site, allows bloggers to follow many blogs without having to manually check for updates |
| publish/subscribe model | This illustrates how a feed reader application checks a user's subscribed feeds for updated information thus ensuring that users recieve newly published content to which they subscribe |
| Web gadget | This allows you to embed or view the content of a Web feed on a blog's sidebar |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language--uses code to describe titels, content, and publication dates of Web feeds but does not supply instructions for how to display the items, no formatting information, underlying technology used for describing syndicated content |
| live bookmarks | subscribed feeds in Mozilla Firefox, shows the title of a blog post from a feed that takes you to the permalink of the blog post |
| client feed readers | Applications installed on a desktop or laptop that store information locally |
| Web based feed readers | Popular because they store feed information online thus making it available on any computer or mobile device with a browser/Internet conneciton, ex. Google Reader |
| offline browsing | A feature of feed readers that can download new information from web feeds directly to your device in order to view them without being connected to the Internet |
| metrics | Provided by feed managing services, quantitative results that summarize how users interact with a feed's content |
| reach | Term used to describe total number of people who have viewed or clicked on content in a blog |
| feed mananging service | Can provide simplified functionality for the user and valuable metrics for the professional blogger, ex. FeedBurner |
| Atom | New open source format, alternative to RSS, designed to syndicate content across many OS systems, browsers and devices |
| tags | descriptive keywords, XML uses to describe information |
| opening tag | brackets, XML characteristic, brackets |
| closing tag | brackets, slash, XML characteristic, brackets |
| podcast | Series or single episode of audio or video files that are broadcast to a computer or personal medial player |
| podcast reader | A.K.A. podcatcher or media aggregator, allows you to download and manage your podcast subscriptions |
| show notes | Blog post describing a podcast episode, contain summaries, hyperlinks of sites mentioned in podcast episode, and direct link to the podcast |