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October 26, 2005

Groovy New College RSS Feeds

Filed under: New College Feeds — Dan Karleen @ 10:46 pm

I am very pleased to present three new feeds–make that, three very different and noteworthy feeds–submitted to the College and University Feed Directory recently. I continue to be impressed by the thought and creativity going into these feeds. A hearty thanks to all of you who have submitted your feeds over the last few weeks since we’ve been live.

First, there’s an aggregated feed of blogs at University of South Florida. USF is using a WordPress blog as a way to aggregate mutliple RSS feeds and present them as a single feed. WordPress and a plug-in such as FeedWordPress make this kind of thing pretty easy. (The result is sometimes called a “planet” site.) The fact that they are offering this kind of feed shows that USF is thinking about how these feeds might be used, and have decided that a single consolidated feed might appeal to some people. Instead of subscribing to all the individual blog feeds, I can subscribe to this single feed and receive all the items from the feeds being included in this feed. My friends, behold the power of syndication.

Next, we have our first Swedish-language feed, this of the blog Nyheter Biologi & Geo-biblioteken.

Finally, we have a Mount Holyoke College news and events feed. This feed is generated using the ListGarden RSS Feed Generator (which requires manual maintenance of the feed), with each item accompanied by an image. Shown below are two items from this feed as shown in the Sage feed reader plugin for Firefox.

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