monitoring web sites rss and other tools
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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? Well – we are journalists, right? Our own stuff. How will we monitor? Do it yourself Get an agent to do the hard work. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Monitoring web sitesRSS 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 yourselfo Get an agent to do the hard work
• How will we receive the result?o E-mailo RSS feedo Other types
• What will we monitor?
o Sources, interest groups etc.o News siteso Search enginesoWeb in generalo 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 blogsMonitoring web pages
Windows Mac OS X Web•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…
• www.feed43.com• www.feedyes.com• www.feedfire.com• Etc.
A feed consists of 2 (or 3) things
• A title• A link• Text (not always)
We only need to know two tools:
• {%} means: ”something I want”• {*} means: ”stuff I don’t want”
• And then we need courage…