I asked myself the question, "what websites have the highest RSS feed utilization?" I found a site devoted to syndicated sites which is http://www.syndic8.com/. This site provides the top 200 most popular feeds. In the top ten, eight of the feeds are related to technical learning and sharing. Answers to how to fix computer problems abound. It appears that the RSS feeds is being used to share trouble-shooting information between computer techies who are backing up like software programs. In other words, the "learning" arising from on-the-job issues is being shared world-wide via websites that have feeds. It's facinating. Leave it to the techies to invent a unique usage for the RSS feed.
The other two most popular websites were about news headlines. It appears that the rest of the world is lagging behind the techies as they are ONLY using this mechanism to just get the news "pushed" to them.
This site also has RSS statistics, RSS articles, and info that is apparently related on Pings, Tags, Web Services, etc. I'll need to learn about all of those at another sitting.
Hi Micky
ReplyDeleteThank you for your information about RSS resouces! This is one of the powerful social networking tools for e-learning!
Micky,
ReplyDeleteWow I just read your posts regarding RSS and RSS resrouces/ websites. This is great and I completely agree as a researcher it can be a very beneficial tool always keeping you up to date on the most recent activity. I laughed with your discovery about the "techies" because it does not surprise me that these are the people putting RSS to the best use.
i just looked at the site that u posted in ur blog post. this RSS website is great. i think that cmputer troubles are the highest thinf on this source is because the world is ran by technology. Since we rely on computer for so much we freak out when we have any kind of problems with them
ReplyDeleteI know. I thought it was interesting too. RSS feeds are a bit cumbersome so I am counting on the techies to come up with quicker, better, easier ways of putting them to use.
ReplyDeleteHi Bruce. Couldn't agree with you more. We're surrounded when it comes to technology.
ReplyDeleteMickey