FloridaMedicaid.com RSS Feed

FloridaMedicaid.com is pleased to make RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") files of all our content available to users, to facilitate reading the 'blog news' in news aggregators.  Using a "news aggregator" [we like NewsGator.com] allows you to subscribe to our RSS file and have current elder law news delivered right into your Outlook folders or to the news aggregator itself.  More about RSS.  See also: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

How?  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 FloridaMedicaid.com RSS feed to any of the most popular aggregators with one more click. Or you can copy the RSS Feed URL - http://www.FloridaMedicaid.com/atom.xml - from the little orange XML logo next to the FloridaMedicaid.com RSS feed, 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.

Add Headlines to Your Site:  Another thing RSS lets you do is put FloridaMedicaid.com headlines on your site, which update themselves automatically when the RSS feeds update.  See more ...

What is this?

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" and it is relatively easy to implement and use. 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.

News aggregators are proliferating, for a variety of platforms and degrees of technical expertise. Some popular ones are FeedDemon (for Windows), NetNewsWire (for Mac), Amphetadesk (for Windows, Linux, or Mac), Radio (for Windows or Mac), KlipFolio (for Windows - you can download the special klip file  ), NewsWatcher (for Windows XP), and NewzCrawler (for Windows). 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. Bloglines offers an increasingly slick interface, while My Feedster marries an aggregator to an RSS search engine and MyWireService lets you add bunches of related feeds at once. There's also Oddpost (for Windows), a paid web-based e-mail service that includes a built-in aggregator.

Six software packages that work only with Windows and require Microsoft's .NET to be installed on your PC (and if you have to ask what that is, you probably don't have it) are: VoxLite, Wildgrape News Desk, Syndirella, NewsGator, SharpReader, BlogExpress, and RSS Bandit (open source).

Yahoo! now lets you add RSS feeds to your personalized page. To add any feed with two clicks, go to our My Yahoo! help page.

Other interesting RSS applications: a Java installation is required for nntp//rss, a program which lets you read RSS files in Outlook Express or any other newsgroup-reading software. Or if you'd like your RSS headlines in a news ticker, try wTicker (for Windows). A program called ToolButton adds a toolbar to your browser, with all the headlines for a site under a button.

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.

Another thing RSS lets you do is put Monitor headlines on your site, which update themselves automatically when the RSS feeds update. The easiest way to do this is with a free service from Feedroll. Enter the URL for one of the Monitor's feeds, copy the line of javascript supplied, and simply insert it into your site's HTML code. If you want to do-it-yourself, WebReference has instructions for using Perl, and CaRP uses PHP (as do several other packages available online).

For more information on the implications and uses of RSS, you can read these articles from the Online Journalism Review and the American Press Institute. For more on using and creating RSS feeds, turn to this tutorial from the Utah State Government. Another useful and extensive list of RSS resources is at LockerGnome.

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