One of the problems I’ve been wrestling with at work is how to get a good mix of feeds that are particular to our employees’ line of work, and then find a way to deliver those subscriptions so I don’t have to set up each and every reader in my company. Today I may have stumbled upon a solution.
While searching for a good feed for the Chicago Tribune, a subscription that one of my fellow employees wants Factiva to replace, I started subscription surfing on a likely site — CBS 2 in Chicago. I found an interesting link when I did that. It turns out that one of Bloglines’ employees has put together a RSS feed of news sites.
“I have collected, the feeds of popular news sources, by a nickname of its domain and given them publicity. This means you can read them in Bloglines’ interface. It is easy to make your own collection by clicking the “Subscribe” links.”
Use the tool to deliver the solution! It puts the feeds where they would be used versus maintaining a separate web page where employees would have to copy and paste. I love it! Now I just have to find a feed for the Trib and American Banker. *sigh*
Zes, if you find a feed for American Banker pass it on! I’ve checked most of the finacial services and banking pub sites with shockingly few positives results.
I think they’ll have a feed sooner or later. What I’m considering at this point is a Feedster search result feed on certain subjects. However, Feedster isn’t very good at boolean searches (the feeds mess up when you have parenthesis in the search string) so I’m having trouble narrowing the information down into something useful. I’m sure this just takes practice, and time…lots of time. *sigh*