The National Science Fair

Google RSS

Currently on the web there are thousands of interesting sites which we find information that we are important or relevant to our occupations or interests by which becomes very tedious having to go site by site in search of latest updates. To solve this issue we have the so-called RSS which is a means of dissemination of content that allows us access to the latest information from our favorite sites without having to visit the page of each of them. The process is fairly simple and your review is performed as if it were an electronic mail account. To access the information you must use an RSS reader that you can access when you subscribe to google.com reader service; the system works in the following way: when web site that these syndicated updates some contents (e.g. a new products news, updates or adds another page), then the web master also updated their RSS feeds. Your RSS reader checks the feeds and shows you new content.

Usually the SRR are used to keep informed on our sites to our subscribers to the latest changes or new publications by a the OJ and on the other allows us to show content updated in the pages of our sites by placing links pointing to feeds from other sites, implying having renewed web pages constantly, very timely for browsers. When readers we are or we are pleased to be informed about the latest in our fields, the use of a feed reader assumes big savings of time and inconvenience since it is possible to quickly view all the new content published on several sites virtually at the same time and we envision it in one place. There are three ways to access the information through RSS: 1 – using the web browser. 2. Using an application or software that is installed on the user’s computer. 3. Using an e-mail program. The simplest is to use free web-based services, the most popular are Google, and Bloglines We simply register and then choose the RSS services that we want to be informed.

The other method is by using a software or application that we install on our computers, one of the most used is Feedreader which is installed with ease. Finally by way of information, I tell them that RSS files, like web pages, have a Url (internet address) which is the need to indicate in the RSS reader so that it can find on the web and show us their contents. There are also directories of RSS feeds, lists of Favorites or search engines of contents and RSS feeds; which are both very useful to find other feeds or to sign the feeds of our site to make it available to other users who want to be aware of what we do. I hope will be useful in these times where information abounds and time it seems increasingly scarce. A greeting. Jorge Alberto Magallanes.