(via Cutting Through) Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion adds a bit of a twist for getting RSS feeds from news sources that don’t already have them. Basically, you do a site limited search at Google News and then use the Gnews2RSS hack to create the feed. So now, if I wanted, I could start getting a feed about the Cubs from the Chicago Tribune, especially cool because a) the Trib doesn’t have RSS feeds that I know of, and b) the online version is behind one of those stupid unpaid subscription logins. (I hate those.) It’s not hard to think about ways that students could implement searches like these, not necessarily from newspaper sites but from more focused news sources like, say Solar Access.com News or Medical News Today. (Yep, they are both searchable like this.) I’ll have to add this to the Quick Start Guide.
Now, all we need is a list of the 4,500 news sources that Google News uses…and for the Cubs to get into the playoffs…
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