Content Syndication with RSS

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly; 1st edition (April 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596003838
ISBN-13: 978-0596003838
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches







Amazon review:
Originally developed by Netscape in 1999, RSS (which can stand for RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. Content Syndication with RSS offers webloggers, developers, and the programmers who support them a thorough explanation of syndication in general and RSS in particular. Written for web developers who want to offer XML-based feeds of their content, as well as developers who want to use the content that other people are syndicating, the book explores and explains metadata interpretation, different forms of content syndication, and the increasing use of web services in this field.
Topics covered in the book include:
Creating XML syndication feeds with RSS 0.9x and 2.0
Beyond headlines: creating richer feeds with RSS 1.0 and RDF metadata
Using feeds to enrich a site or find information
Publish and subscribe: intelligent updating
News aggregators, such as Meerkat, Syndic8, and Newsisfree, and their web services
Alternative industry-centric standards

Reader Review:
I must underscore the reason why I capitalized the word "PRINTED" in the title of this review. This is indeed the best book about the topic of RSS (RDF Site Summary), which has become increasingly more important since blogs jumped out of tech obscurity to become a mainstream form of web-enabled information dissemination. However, nowadays the topic is too dynamic (there's too much happening these days in the field of RSS) to make Hammersley's book a comprehensive and current enough resource for all matters and purposes.

As a general introductory reading, it's the best book out there. But once you get your feet deep enough in the RSS waters, you need to go online and search for the current APIs, Web Services, News Aggregators and RSS/Blog Directories, which is the area where the book will fall behind the fast growth of this area. Overall, very well structured, even with an appendix on the XML you need to know, in order to be able to deal with RSS.

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