I love my local news RSS feeds and you’ll have to pry them from my cold dead feed reader, but they are absolutely flooding me with feed items. I’ve been spending the last week or so trying to build a filtering system that would make the information flow a little more manageable. Finally this evening […]
Local Search America Adds Local News Feed, Articles From 1K+ Sources Around the US
Local Search America has a new tool! Local News Feed gathers RSS feed items from 1003 local news sources across the US and aggregates them into one state-browsable, keyword-searchable bundle with associated topic pages.
Adding Topic Pages To My Local News Aggregator
I’ve been spending the day adding topic pages to my local news aggregator — these are pages where articles are filtered for keywords clustered around a certain topic. This is plain keyword filtering, so you will get the occasional mechanically-produced goofy result, but I’ve found them useful and mostly on-topic. You can browse the topic […]
Building a Local News Aggregator With 1000+ Sources
Last week I went poking around and found a local news sources dataset from the Media and Democracy Project. I used that as a quarry and mined it for RSS feeds with a couple of Google Apps Scripts. I’m not finished with that dataset but so far I’ve come up with 1008 verified RSS feeds for local news sources in America.
Upgrading Wikipedia Seismograph
Using Wikipedia Seismograph’s new zoom feature means you can explore over nine years’ worth of public interest data in any Wikipedia topic with one chart and easily turn it into date-bounded Google News searches.
Gift Article Gazette Upgraded
A couple years ago I created a site called MastoGizmos, a collection of tools for exploring and searching Mastodon. One of the tools in the eleven item collection is Gift Article Gazette, an aggregator that collects articles tagged GiftArticle and GiftLink from around Mastodon and makes them available in one place. The first version of […]
No Kings TV Returns With Updates
No Kings TV is an easy way to browse news about the No Kings protests this weekend across 120 sources in 21 US Metro areas. Now with Mastodon hashtags!
Exploring “War-Torn” Portland With Local Search America
Local Search America is free to use and free of advertising. In this article I’m going to walk you through its three tools to find local TV stations, government agencies, and institutions of higher learning near Portland and search their Web sites. We’ll start with Local News TV.
Blaugust: Heard about Google’s “Preferred Sources”? Here are 4 Other Ways to Find Specific News Outlets
Have you heard about Google’s new “preferred sources?” I’ll show you three other ways to discover news sources and bundle them into a Google search and one way to find TV news by US metro area.
Attention Junction Now Suggests Related Topics and I Love the Way It Helps Me Search
Attention Junction, a tool I recently created that explores overlapping public interest in topics using Wikipedia page views, has a new feature: it now suggests related topics so you can create topic pairs while not knowing anything beyond the initial topic in which you’re interested. Does this new feature use AI? Nope, it’s using the […]