Attaching a video clip

Today I learned how to attach video to my blog.

Video file sharing is massively involed in web 2.0/ social networking. There are many sites that invite users to upload video, for people to download, share and leave comments. The most established and recognised site is 'You Tube'. the content of the video can be practically anything, majority of the time the video's are produced by the users themselves. When you visit a video sharing site, there is normally an option to browse/search for video clips of a specfic genre e.g comedy, or in my case martial arts.

Now, to attach a video to your blog, you simply need to go to a video sharing site (I have used 'You Tube'), select the video you wish to use, as you do so, there will be a section that looks like this picture. You need to copy the code within the embed section, highlight the code shortcut key is apple/command + C for mac users or CRTL + C for PC users.


After this go to your blog, go to edit posts, or new posts, and paste the code apple/command + V or CRTL + V, into the html, hit the publish button. Wolla! You now have a video in your blog.

What's RSS

Today I learnt about RSS.

RSS, this means 'real simple syndication'.

RSS is part of a family of web feed formats used to send frequently updated data.

The principle of RSS is that it keeps you updated on a particular website by subscribing to its RSS feeds. For example if you regularly visit a website on cooking recipes, instead of repeatedly searching through web pages for this information, the information comes to you. However, not all websites offer RSS feeds, websites that do tend to have a RSS logo appear on the page in the url in certain web browsers e.g. firefox, or there's an option within the page, normally saying 'subscribe to feed' or a similar phrase.

To use RSS feeds, you have to use a program known as 'readers or aggregators . The RSS feeds are recieved by these programs, think of them as a mail box to recieve data.