1. Monitoring web sites RSS and other tools

2. Monitoring web sites Why monitor? What? How will we monitor? How will we get the results?

3. Why monitor? o Well – we are journalists, right? o Our own stuff

4. How will we monitor? o Do it yourself o Get an agent to do the hard work

5. How will we receive the result? o E-mail o RSS feed o Other types

6. What will we monitor? o Sources, interest groups etc. o News sites o Search engines o Web in general o Blogosphere

7. An example: Update Scanner A firefox extension to monitor web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don't provide RSS feeds.

24. Platform for monitoring News Monitoring search engines Monitoring blogs Monitoring web pages

40. WindowsMac OS XWeb Newzcrawler Feedreader FeedDemon Awasu Etc. Newsfire Netnewswire Pulp Fiction News Mac Pro Etc. Bloglines NewsGator My Yahoo! Google Reader Etc.

42. When you need a RSS feed… www.feed43.com www.feedyes.com www.feedfire.com Etc.

43. A feed consists of 2 (or 3) things A title A link Text (not always)

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