News factory
: Topix.net gives us automated, categorized news. Compare/contrast with GoggleNews and Newsbot. I wish one of them would do this for blog content.
4 responses to “News factory”
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Topix does include a handful of blogs. We will probably add the bulk of them back into the main crawl at some point, but one of the problems is that, despite our affinity for blog content, there’s not as much hard news being reported in them as we’d hope. Given the scanning-for-hard-news nature of our system, not very much actually came out of the blogosphere when we pointed our system at it.
It’s easy to put out yet-another-opinion on the Iraq war, but it’s actual work to attend the city council meeting and produce a write-up, or interview the owner of the local mall about why they’re not doing so well. Journalists definitely earn their money. I’ll cite your own hyperlocal blog for Bernards, NJ as an example of the difficultly of reliably blogging local news… -
I wish they offered RSS feeds for each of their categories.
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RSS feeds are coming soon, stay tuned…
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Wait another year or two and Nick may finally launch Kinja for blog aggregation. Till then, there’s RSS/Atom.
