Earlier today I posted about new research on the domestication of maize. I heard about this news via an alerting service called EurekAlerts! from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
EurekAlerts! is a global news service through which organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. They offer RSS Feeds (more on that in a moment) in a number of subject areas, including Archaeology.
RSS Feeds offer a quick and easy way to keep up-to-date in your area of research. By subscribing to the RSS Feed using a feed reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader, you can be alerted to any new content that is posted. To find feeds, look for the orange RSS icons on your favorite news source, blog, or ejournal:
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You add a feed to your reader by clicking on the RSS icon and then copying & pasting the URL into the RSS reader. Anytime new content is added, your Reader will be updated.
For a quick introduction to RSS Feeds and Readers, I highly recommend this 4-minute video “RSS in Plain English“:
(Thanks to the good folks at Common Craft for their Explanation in Plain English series!)