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RSS Rich Site Summary Real Simple Syndication An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers by Stephen Downes @ Stephen s Web QuickTime and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. Page 5
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RSS is the most significant advance in the fundamental architecture of the web RSS allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that [content] changes. O reillynet.com Page 7
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1. Oversubscribe 2. Try a River of News view 3. Use Multiple Services 4. Try out a desktop reader 5. Tag items to share 6. Learn about OPML Content Creator/Producer Page 15
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About 120,000 new blogs each day, or... 1.4 new blogs every second 1.5 million posts per day, or... 17 posts per second Page 17
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Nobody can tell you what the matrix is, you have to experience it for yourself. Morpheus, The Matrix I believe learning comes from passion, not discipline. Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab Page 21
United States - Top 20 Websites June 2007 Quantcast Internet Rankings reports that the following are the top 20 websites in the United States according to Quantcast s traffic (monthly unique visitors) estimates for June, 2007: 1 - Yahoo.com - 121 million monthly visitors 2 - Google.com - 115 million visitors 3 - MSN.com - 62 million visitors 4 - ebay.com - 54 million visitors 5 - Microsoft.com - 52 million visitors 6 - MySpace - 49 million visitors 7 - Wikipedia - 48 million visitors 8 - Live.com - 43 million visitors 9 - About.com - 39 million visitors 10 - AOL.com - 35 million visitors 11 - Amazon.com - 34 million visitors 12 - Mapquest.com - 32 million visitors 13 - Adobe.com - 31 million visitors 14 - Go.com - 30 million visitors 15 - YouTube - 29 million visitors 16 - Verizon.com - 26 million visitors 17 - Walmart.com - 25 million visitors 18 - Target.com - 22 million visitors 19 - Answers.com - 20 million visitors (in USA, 56% of 36 million) 20 - Ask.com - 19 million visitors. The Long Tail Movie Page 22
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