RSS
Factiva Begins Offering “Campaign Issue” RSS Feeds
The RSSification of content continues, this time from a major online info service. From the announcement, “Targeting the U.S. government sector, this free RSS feed will continuously update the campaign issues being reported, enabling users to view a three-paned window that allows them to quickly scan campaign issue headlines. If they see an update or issue that interests them, they can easily click on the link to read the entire story.” These feeds use web-based content so you don’t need a Factiva subscription to read the full text. Four feeds are available:
+ Jobs & Economy
+ Health Care
+ War In Iraq
+ Budget & Taxes
You can read the headlines via the Factiva site or place the “headline only” feeds directly into your aggregator.

and while we’re on the topic of RSS…

News
Weblogs
Say Hello to MetroFeed
Here’s a new service, it looks like an early beta, that aggregates RSS feeds from “locally” oriented blogs (and other news sources) onto a single page. Sort by source or by time. Pages also contain local weather and other news from the Blogosphere. Each feed needs more sources but it’s an interesting idea and a site to watch. Yes, you can also get an RSS feed for each city MetroFeed. (-: It sounds very similar to what Blake and Steven have offered up at LISFeeds (library and info science blogs) for a long time. You can also accomplish the same type of service (with more mainstream news content) via the 150,000+ “topic pages” at Topix.net and/or placing one of more of their “topic feeds” into your aggregator.
MetroFeeds’ are available at the moment for:
+ Los Angeles
+ New York
+ San Francisco
+ Seattle
+ Chicago
+ San Diego
+ Washington, DC
+ Toronto
+ London

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