Monitoring web sites RSS and other tools
Monitoring web sites Why monitor? What? How will we monitor? How will we get the results?
Why monitor? o Well – we are journalists, right? o Our own stuff
How will we monitor? o Do it yourself o Get an agent to do the hard work
How will we receive the result? o o RSS feed o Other types
What will we monitor? o Sources, interest groups etc. o News sites o Search engines o Web in general o Blogosphere
An example: Update Scanner A firefox extension to monitor web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don't provide RSS feeds.
Platform for monitoring News Monitoring search engines Monitoring blogs Monitoring web pages
WindowsMac OS XWeb Newzcrawler Feedreader FeedDemon Awasu Etc. Newsfire Netnewswire Pulp Fiction News Mac Pro Etc. Bloglines NewsGator My Yahoo! Google Reader Etc.
When you need a RSS feed… Etc.
A feed consists of 2 (or 3) things A title A link Text (not always)
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