Comments about oreilly What Are Syndication Feeds:

Though the basics of this shortcut cover some good information, I think it has a little problem with deciding who the intended audience is. Most of the content is more of a definition, description and overview of RSS feeds, which is fitting to the title. But, it takes the time to define the elements of a fee for different feed protocols, etc. which would really only be interesting to someone trying to build a feed by hand. For those sections, if they are intended for a more advanced user, they followed it short.

Though I have been impressed by many of the O'Reilly shortcut titles it for their concise and accurate information provided in a downloadable real time (read that instant gratification) format, this title fell a little bit short. That said, there is some good information here for beginners who want to understand a little bit more about what RSS feeds are, how to use an aggregator, how to subscribe to feeds in general, and things like that.

Intended Audience: not quite sure

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Comments about oreilly What Are Syndication Feeds:

I thought this would give a more solid understanding of what Syndication feeds are, why I would want to use them, and how to set up my computer to find them and use them.

I am an experienced programmer and I did not expect this to describe the XML elements for the various RSS feed specifications - which is probably half the content of this paper. That infomation is readily available and very dry reading and not something that anyone would expect or want to commit to memory.

Comments about oreilly What Are Syndication Feeds:

I just read this eDoc and found it very helpful. The eDoc format is cool because they're nice and short, easy to digest during a break. It took about 30 minutes to read and now I am up to speed on RSS.