Now Revolutionalized is the Web – Internet

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wiki and wikipedia
- blogging
- podcasting

- webpages for advertising
- mp3

- Social and ethical issue
Read article web 2.0 make your mark on the net, PC pro February 2007, P140 to 159

Visit the website rise of the participation culture www.wsjb.com/rpc/v1/home.html for some information background reading on this topic.

Watch this video which demonstrates the new Web 2.0


After knowing how the Internet can serve as a powerful tool for communication, interacting with the users, we now have to understand further HOW to distribute posted data on the web to users.

Media distribution

Watch this video on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE


retrieved from slide share: http://www.slideshare.net/ictguy/introduction-to-blogging/
1. Delivery of podcasts is through subscription using RSS or Atom – what is RSS and how does it work?
Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. It includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information.

Users of RSS content use programs called feed "readers" or "aggregators": the user "subscribes" to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

Listen to this podcast about RSS.

2. What is HTML and why are they considered static pages?
3. XML Tagged files – what are they, how are they different from HTML and how are they used in podcasting?
4. Describe the steps that you would need to take to create an RSS feed for your podcast.
5. Podcasts can be distributed through linked downloads – Describe how you can download a podcast through a link on a website

By using iTune. iTune is one type of media player that allows users to download songs and podcasts, by simply subscribing to the
particular podcast. In the iTune store, a user can click on podcast, and choose one particular podcast
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Once, a podcast is chosen, simply click on 'subscribe'. podcast2.JPG
Working along with iTune, iJuice- an aggregator helps to download any recent updated files provided it is activated and the user is online. When iJuice finishes downloading all the files concerned, the user can play it in iTune.

Choosing a podcast in other source:
Say, you are interested in Nature podcast, http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html, and you want to subscribe to their podcast.
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Simply click on 'Subscribe' and it will link you to the page that provides with you with the url which you will paste it to an 'Add Feed' space like the one below in iJuice:

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