JLC-Online is pleased to offer RSS feeds of several content areas. RSS feeds allow dynamic JLC-Online content to be displayed in news aggregators or syndicated on other websites. Learn more about RSS Feeds.
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JLC-Online Forum Feeds return the most 15 most recently created Threads. Additional parameters may be appended to the RSS Feed URL to change the default output
qty = Choose how many Threads to include in the feed
new = Choose number of New posts only from the selected forum(s)
active = Choose number of Posts that are either new or have had a recent reply from the selected forum(s)
What is RSS?
Two easy web-based news aggregators:
An RSS file is basically a list of headlines encoded so that it can be easily used by another program or website. RSS is usually said to stand for "Really Simple Syndication". RSS is a form of XML (eXtensible Markup Language), which means that each piece of data in the list — a headline, a description of a story — is coded separately so that a program will know exactly what to do with it.
Programs that know what to do with RSS files are called "news aggregators." They let you read headlines from dozens or hundreds of news sites at one time. You simply plug in the addresses of the RSS files you want, such as the ones listed above.
There are many news aggregators available. Some popular ones are FeedDemon (for Windows), NetNewsWire (for Mac), Radio (for Windows or Mac), NewsWatcher (for Windows XP), NewzCrawler (for Windows), and Shrook (for Mac OS 10). Pluck integrates right into IE 6.0 on Windows XP and 2000.
If you don't want to install any software, you might try websites that do the aggregation for you. NewsGator lets you read online or in your e-mail software while Bloglines offers a very slick interface. My Feedster marries an aggregator to an RSS search engine.
Yahoo! lets you add RSS feeds to your personalized My Yahoo page.
If you do want to install new software, you might try the Firefox Web browser , which lets you save RSS feeds as "Live Bookmarks" that constantly update. The Opera browser also integrates support for RSS feeds into its email reader.
Once you have one of these aggregators installed, click on the 'Subscribe' button. It will take you to a page where you can add the RSS feed to any of the most popular aggregators with one more click. Or you can copy the URL from the little orange XML logo next to the RSS feed you wish to read, and add it to your aggregator manually. This is a slightly different process for each aggregator, so look to the help files that come with it.
RSS Feeds may also be used to display or syndicate JLC-Online content on your own website, which would update automatically when the RSS feeds updates. For more information or advice on this, contact the JLC-Online webmaster.
May 16, 2008
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