Paul Bradshaw of onlinejournalism.com has done a nice job explaining how to use Yahoo Pipes, which is a tool that lets you aggregate and bundle RSS feeds in ways that suit your needs. He's previously posted about how to use it for journalism:
Monday, January 19, 2009
Another top ten list, this time of things journalists should know going into 2009. It's from www.journalism.co.uk and there's nothing here I wouldn't also recommend a journalist getting their head around. 1. How to use Twitter to build communities, cover your beat, instigate and engage in conversations. 2. How to use RSS feeds to gather news...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
ReadWriteWeb have done a nice end-of-year profile on Common Craft, the folk who make the 'In Plain English' videos. It's a nice read and the part about why Common Craft decided to move away from its custom video service into its current licencing business model is interesting:
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
RSS in Plain English is a great introduction to RSS and using RSS readers to keep track of news and blog posts. From www.commoncraft.com.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
It's not just me, then. I see Jeff Jarvis is also getting annoyed with the way news companies are dumping multiple headlines on Twitter in big batches, with the result that they fill out people's Twitter boxes.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Every day's a good day for some Web2.0 for beginners from Common Craft. So here's RSS feeds in Plain English.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
I wrote yesterday about Alltop, a new site that makes it easy to read stories and blogs on a particular topic in one place without having to set up RSS feeds and a reader. I hadn't had a good look around yet yesterday but had begun wondering what it was like as a news aggregator and how well it would work for journalism blogs.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Richard MacManus's review of Alltop on ReadWriteWeb this week caught my eye for two reasons - the site seems worthy of exploration and he took a swipe at mainstream media's portrayal of blogs. Alltop is a simple-to-use site designed to make reading stories and blogs from across the web easier for people who've yet to get to grips with RSS feeds.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Since my last post on Twitter as a news delivery service, I've signed up for two New York Times feeds and noticed that they're using a headline-only format which solves the problem of tight space quite neatly, I think:
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
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