This article by Jonathan Eisenzopf provides a wonderful description of how RSS was created and the future uses of the technology.

http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/02/eisenzopf/

RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication and was created by Netscape in XML format in order to organize content from one site and delivery it to other sites. RSS readers can provide alerts to users about updates on websites the readers do the work for you by collecting feeds from sites that you have visited and then combine them into one place, and delivers them to the user. The more sites you visit, the more you benefit from using RSS. RSS is helpful for those websites that are updated frequently like News Sites (New York Times) RSS links or feeds include a title, description and a link to the particular web page

There are several versions of RSS, but almost all applications that handle RSS feeds can read all the different versions. You can find several RSS readers for free on the internet, but you can also pay for RSS services.

http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm

Week 8

For this last week of my technology I thought it would be fun to look into how geocahing has encouraged children to be outdoors more. This one site below introduces children to the sport by telling them that they can learn about nature, other cultures, history, and new technologies.
http://eduscapes.com/geocaching/kids.htm

This next website is an easy intro for young children to understand the new sport
http://www.geocachingkids.com/