Aggregated news source syndication?

[birdmidflight]

How/where can I find/use feeds that mush together UK news stories of different types?

For example, Google News offers up news stories in various categories (ie. Sport, Health)
and, of course, their alorithm, cleverly avoids repetition of stories on the same subject (I'm
aware Google News doesn't syndicate out to RSS at this stage - Atom etc.?).

How does TodaysPapers.com do what it does?
That little site has a couple of hundred stories each listed across 12 categories.
Where do they get these stories from? Is it a matter of one selecting feeds himself from
sites that offer them, then combining them somehow (a "feedroll")?
Or do they just come in from some aggregation/wire service that's already done that, like
Moreover, or... Google!?
How are they fed in?
Can I get UK-specific feeds?

How do these guys deal with multiple stories on the same subject?
Obviously, Google has some fancy algorithm to group similar stories. But, without
something like that, you wouldn't dozens of publishers' stories on the same subject
coming in, would you?
Also confused about gaguing "popular" stories (maybe there's a feed somewhere for *that*
as well?).

So many questions :)

Thank-you very much for your help.











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[Julian Bond]

This is probably old news but I was just looking at the new MSN News
Search and it's RSS feed and discovered that every entry seems to be
coming from Moreover.

I'd given up on Moreover years ago, because they were progressively
hiding their RSS and the aggregation wasn't great. And now I find it's
all available again and out in the open.

I hope their getting some money from this.
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[Stephen Downes]

Hiya,

Subject: Aggregated news source syndication?
How/where can I find/use feeds that mush together UK news stories of
different types?

Services such as PubSub do this sort of thing. See http://www.pubsub.com/

It's not perfect, but it's pretty goos and should probably meet your needs.

You can also do a similar thing with Technorati. Conduct a search on
Technorati,
and when you get results you like, click on 'Make this a Watch List'.
Sign up for an account; you will be given an RSS feed.
http://www.technorati.com/members/

Note that because Technorati requires a ping before it harvests, it may
miss some content (it hasn't harvested my site for more than a year (486
days, to be precise).


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