RSS Basics - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 16

Figure 2.6
feedster's results
give you just enough
content to allow a little
preview of the blog
itself.
Notice, too, that the source of the result is shown at the bottom underneath the
“snippet” of the search result. (he snippet usually contains at least one of the
keywords for which you were searching.) You might skim the snippet and decide
you immediately want to subscribe to the RSS feed. In that case, you can click the
orange button just to the right of the word From at the bottom of the entry.
here's your RSS feed. Sometimes you won't want to subscribe to that feed,
but you may want to read some of the articles on the feed and see what sites
the articles refer to. his takes some extra time, but it can pay of by point-
ing you to sources of information you might not ind otherwise.
What Should You Do with these resources?
We're going through these resources and i'm teaching you how to search for and ind things, but i'm
not teaching you what to do with them…yet. So what should you do with them? Should you make an
attempt to gather RSS feeds now, or just do example searches now and come back later?
if you're starting from square one, you can either try a few example searches now and come back
and do the real searches a little later on, or start a text ile and paste in the URLs of any RSS feeds
you ind interesting that you want to come back to. if you're a little more advanced and already
have a favorite feed reader set up, go ahead and add your feeds to it.
Syndic8
Syndic8 (syndic8.com) is a bit geekier than Feedster, and is designed only for
inding RSS feeds instead of searching for information from RSS feeds. For
this reason, Syndic8 provides a lot of information about the feeds it lists.
Look for the Search for Feed query box on the front page ( Figure 2.7 ).