Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:40:46 -0500
Author: DeWayne Purdy <dewayne.purdy@uni.edu>
Subject: News Feeds
Body: On our News page (http://www.umpr.uni.edu/News.asp) and our portal,
we've been using a news feed from Moreover.com that selects news from
various media outlets around the country that reference UNI and
aggregates them into a list on our site. They had been delivering a
free service and a paid service, but now their free service includes an
advertisement (that looks like the other news links). Ads of that type
are against our university policy. Does anyone know of any other
services, paid or free that we can investigate? The basic cost for the
paid service from Moreover starts at $6,000. Using a Provided by...
link is acceptable under our policy, but not the ad they are slipping
in at the top.
DeWayne
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:45:01 -0600 (CST)
Author: Peter Scott <Peter.Scott@usask.ca>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, DeWayne Purdy wrote:
I have a list of feed suppliers at:
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/rssfeeds.html
It doesn't (yet) give a list for each supplier, just a link to their main
feed pages.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:53:21 -0700
Author: Dave Wolowicz <wolowicz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: yea the moreover guys are killing me with their spam. Try using a news
feed from one news source. Or whip up an applet that combines news
sources from a couple feeds. BBC and CNN and others all have feeds
available. It would not take allot to combine them. Here is a good
feed listing:
http://www.newsgator.com/feeds.aspx
Dave Wolowicz
UVic Communications
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:54:26 -0400
Author: "Dave Hooper" <dhooper@longwood.edu>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: I believe DeWayne is looking for news feeds that find and filter news items
that only reference the university (UNI in his case) - not just general news
feeds. This would also be of interest to me. Do any news feeds in these
lists offer this option - to only display news items that reference a
specific company/word/subject/etc ?
Dave
Director of Web Communications
Longwood University
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:03:11 -0500
Author: Greg Marshall <gmarsh@truman.edu>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: I think someone should suggest an rss feed to Google News. That would
definitely solve the problem.
email news-feedback@google.com
Our university is small enough that we rarely get mentioned in the
news, so this wouldn't do us too much good.
Another option would be to write a script to turn Google News results
into an rss feed, but it wouldn't be as slick as if Google were to
provide it.
Greg
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:04:47 -0400
Author: "Derek Featherstone" <webadmin@furtherahead.com>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: Google likely won't take too kindly to that... See:
<http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3334651>
Cheers,
Derek.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:11:34 -0700
Author: Dave Wolowicz <wolowicz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: Yea I have written google about that previously. You can find scripts
on the web that will turn google news into and RSS feed... But google
does not like that much.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:38:12 -0500
Author: Greg Marshall <gmarsh@truman.edu>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: Well,
The article does indirectly quote Google as saying that the Google News
are in beta and they may add more features, so if enough of us
requested it....
Greg
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:00:30 -0400
Author: David Carter-Tod <dcartertod@vccs.edu>
Subject: Re: News Feeds
Body: Yes, Yahoo News Search returns results as RSS, for example:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=%22virginia%20community%20college%22
Or in this case:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=%22university%20of%20northern%20iowa%22
David