What is RSS?
RSS
stands for really simple syndication. It is a format designed
for sharing headlines and other web content. Instead of continually
checking our website for updates, RSS allows for this information to
be automatically updated to your website, newsreader, or, in the case
of Firefox,
Safari,
or Opera,
and several others, your browser or email client.
Think
of RSS as a special web page that is read by computers rather than
people.
Not
all websites provide RSS, luckily ours does.
How
do I use RSS to get Greenpeace content?
You
will need a news reader, which is a piece of software that checks RSS
feeds to inform you about new content.
Readers
can be accessed using a browser or they can be downloaded.
In
the case of Firefox and Safari, you can also create live bookmarks
from those same links. Hey presto! The latest content will appear
right in your browser's bookmarks. For more information about how to
do this in Firefox, see below.
Once
you have chosen your reader you need to decide on what information
you would like to receive from us.
You
can receive Greenpeace news, press release, jobs and events feeds.
Just click on the links below.
(Right
click and copy these links for bookmarks or pasting into a
newsreader, email client, or other RSS-friendly device. Normal
clicking upon them will just show you a raw XML file. It's not
pretty.)
Greenpeace news:
http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/news
Greenpeace events
http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/events
Greenpeace media releases
http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/media/releases
Greenpeace jobs
http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/about/jobs
You
can generate an RSS 2.0 feed from any page on this website by
inserting /rss in the URL immediately after
http://www.greenpeace.org.
So you would change
this URL
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/media/releases
to
this
http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/media/releases
and import that into
your feed reader software, live bookmark, or web page.
For Firefox users:
This site is enabled
for Live Bookmarks: you'll see this icon
on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking on the icon and
selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select
'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks.
Many people find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in
their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
- Add
Live Bookmarks manually
If you construct your
own RSS feed as above, you can manually create a Live Bookmark for
the site. Go to the Bookmarks menu and select 'Manage Bookmarks'.
Under the 'File Menu', select 'New Live Bookmark'. Create a name for
the Live Bookmark and add the URL. New articles will appear as Live
Bookmarks in Firefox.-
Share your bookmarks
Why keep your bookmarks
to yourself? Services like http://del.icio.us
let you publish your own bookmarks as RSS feeds, so that other
Firefox users can subscribe to your bookmarks through Live
Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks and del.icio.us makes it easy to share
cool sites you like with your friends.
You can also put your
bookmarks into your own private RSS feed, to share your bookmarks
among multiple computers. Spread the word!