Today it was time to do the last presentation for my Academic Presentations course. I was talking about blogs in general in my very first presentation and discussed system selection and article publishing with WordPress in the second one. This time, I used the chance to speak about blogs one more time and concentrated on the reader’s perspective. And this includes of course RSS.

Explaining RSS is like explaining sex. You just don’t get it until you do it.
(George Siemens)

Well, I tried it anyway…

We had about 9 minutes for our speech and I didn’t really manage to make a sensible content selection. Ergo, I spoke reeeeeeally fast, which is definitely not the best idea when it comes to presenting “new” techniques. I hope that my audience understood the main principles of RSS & feeds anyway: They help you to keep track of fast-changing information sources.

There are tons of useful documents about RSS & feeds out there, but maybe you are interested in my PowerPoint slides.

I closed my presentation with a (slightly changed) quotation from Bicyclemark’s talk in HUMlab last week:

There is a problem in the world: There are people who know about RSS and there are people who don’t and are scared. I don’t know how we’re gonna come together.
(Bicylemark)

Hey Mark, feel honoured! You were officially quoted in an “academic” presentation!

Once again, my speech was videotaped (for evaluation purposes only ) and I’m really looking forward to watching it. Another comedy show with 2meter3…

The course is over now and it’s time to thank our teacher Van Leavenworth for doing such a great job. I had a good time in class and appreciated your enthusiastic and straight-forward way of teaching. Thanks for your feedback!