Wheel News RSS Feed

The Wheel is pleased to announce the Wheel RSS news feed service, bringing important community and voluntary sector updates and developments to you anywhere, 24/7! Our RSS news feed resides at http://www.wheel.ie/headlines. Our events news feed is at http://www.wheel.ie/eventsrss.

What is RSS?

RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. There is an excellent one-page primer on RSS at http://www.WhatIsRSS.com . RSS requires a particular type of software to read it, known as a news reader or news aggregator, but fortunately there are many good, free readers available.

What can you do with RSS?

Get the news on your mobile.
Get news from our website and others.
Syndicate content from our website for yours.

Get the news on your mobile.

View the current sector developments on your mobile phone without trawling through websites that were not designed for mobiles. Get the information you need when you need it, hassle free.

Most modern mobile phones have a built in web browser and many others have built in "news reader" software. These devices can be used to read the latest community and voluntary sector news. You can access the Wheel.ie news headlines by pointing the browser/ news reader application on your mobile phone to this address: http://www.wheel.ie/headlines

How can I access Wheel news on my mobile phone?

The exact instructions for accessing RSS feeds from a mobile phone differ from model to model, but for illustrative purposes, this is the procedure on a Sony Ericsson K310i. (shown right)

1. Choose: Menu / Organiser / File Manager / Applications
2. Choose: News Reader
3. Choose: Options / Add
4. Type in the address http://www.wheel.ie/headlines
5. Choose: Add
6. The news feed will then be listed amongst the selection of added feeds in the application.
7. Choose the Wheel feed and it will update itself and display the list of headline items.
8. Choose an item to read more.

Syndicate content for your website from ours

Include Wheel headlines on your website. They are automatically updated on your site when we update ours. Webmasters, link your website to: http://www.wheel.ie/headlines

Get news from our website and others

Use a news aggregator to collect feeds from different sites and display them all in one convenient place. Instead of browsing five sites every morning, you can aggregate five news feeds and browse those at your convenience in one place. Point your news reader/news aggregator to: http://www.wheel.ie/headlines

What is RSS?

Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication – A simple and industry standard format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web. RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers publish their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. There is an excellent one-page primer on RSS at http://www.WhatIsRSS.com

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How can I use it?

To use RSS, you will need to obtain an RSS aggregator which allows you to collect and display feeds from your favourite websites in a single location on your computer. Using a modern web browser or news reader application, point the device to this address: http://www.wheel.ie/headlines

Setting up a feed differs from one aggregator to another and it usually involves copying the URL of the feed - which you can get from the address bar on your browser - and pasting it into a box which will be clearly signed-posted when you run the aggregator. Please consult your aggregator's help documentation for clarification.

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Do I need special software?

On a mobile phone

Many mobile phones come with built in news reader applications. Some of the higher specification phones have web browsers which will will handle RSS feeds.
You can get free downloads of news readers and browsers for any Java enabled phone (most modern phones have Java for their games) from sites such as:
http://www.getjar.com/software/
http://code.google.com/p/mobile-rss-reader/
On a PC
You can download special news reader software. The good folk at Google have compiled a fine selection here.

A modern web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer 7 , Firefox has built in RSS reading functionality.

Also, many email programs, e.g. Thunderbird , incorporate RSS functionality (these are also called news aggregators).

If you don't want to download newsreader software, you can simply visit a website that acts as a reader such as iGoogle or my.yahoo.com

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Why should I use it?

The Wheel RSS feed allows you to stay up to date with the latest developments in the community and voluntary sector anywhere, anytime. If you have an RSS-savvy mobile phone, you don't even have to be near a computer. It is fast to download and easy to access.

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Isn't mobile internet really expensive?

Mobile Internet usage is typically charged on a per KB basis, i.e. it depends how much data you download. Therefore, whilst it can prove expensive to surf ordinary image-heavy websites, (30-40KB a page), our RSS feed is typically approximately 10KB. As of this writing, typical charges for mobile internet access are circa 1 cent per KB. Therefore, you can access our RSS feed for 10 cent: similar to the cost of a text message!

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Some Other RSS News Feeds

Community NI http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommunityniEventsRssFeed
The Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/feeds/rss/
RTE http://www.rte.ie/
Trocaire https://www.trocaire.org/en/news/rss
The Houses of the Oireachtas http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=4573&&CatID=115
Citizens Information Board http://www.citizensinformation.ie/voluntary-and-community-documents

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http://www.wheel.ie/headlines