- the exact number (total) of RSS feed readers displayed on the top page of this blog, plus
- the title and location of only ONE (1) of those RSS feed displays.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
RSS Feed Displays
RSS feed displays come in widgets of all sizes, shapes, and colors, and can provide you and visitors to your blogs with up-to-date information gathered automatically from all kinds of online sources, including blogs and wikis. There are at least four different RSS feed displays that I'm currently using on the Writing Studio Blog. There will be prizes in class for the first students to spell out in a comment on this post:
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HINT: The total number of RSS readers on the top page of the Writing Studio Blog today is more than four and less than ten (4 < n < 10).
ReplyDeleteThank you all for participating in today's RSS reader (treasure) hunt. Unfortunately, there were no comments spelling out the number of RSS readers found on the top page of the Writing Studio Blog today. Students in both classes found some, but not all of them (five):
ReplyDelete1. Headlines (animated, and sometimes shortened), in the introduction;
Three in the sidebar:
2. RSS Reader (§§ 1A & 1C), top right,
3. Recent Comments, just below the Course Calendar, and
4. PlanetWinK Headlines, further down the sidbar; plus
5. Headlines (again, but static, and full length), in the footer.
Sometimes it is hard to tell what is an RSS reader, and what is some other kind of active, information gathering widget that works like an RSS reader.
In general, if you activate a feeds link on a page or in a reader (often an orange button or "subscribe" text link), your browser will take you to another page that displays a long list of full texts (or as much collected) and sometimes even pictures or other media included in the original locations.