This entry on ongoing mentions a new website called Topix.net. The site reminds me of Google News, though Google indexes more sites, but Topix has two features that I haven't found on Google.
1. Topics for a location - Sure, one could look for Chicago and find most stories, but Topix has a conglomeration of local news sources. Which I didn't think was that significant until I realized...
2. RSS feeds for topics - Each topic has its own RSS feed, which is really useful since the local papers I look at don't have RSS feeds (at least yet). Yay! Less sites I have to look at through a browser. Now if only salon.com had a RSS feed.
Salon.com *does* have an RSS feed:
http://www.salon.com/feed/RDF/salon_net.rdf
(I'm not 100% certain if it's a subscriber service, but if you are interested in Salon in the first place, I'd guess you're a subscriber anyway)
BTW- Sharpreader (www.sharpreader.net) is my personal favorite RSS reader (Windows)
Posted by: Daniel Fisher at March 2, 2004 10:14 AMWow, you are right. I see now under Salon services there is a link to Salon's RSS feed - and while I'm a member, even when not logged in one can visit this feed (I'm sure very smart people are working on a standard for seemlessly integrating RSS authentication in a nice way so people can get paid). Is this somewhat new or am I too accustomed to looking for orange buttons? I swore I did a search before and only found articles about RSS and no mention about a feed.
Btw, I use NetNewsWire (mac)- they convinced me to actually pay for it, though I'm keeping my eye on NewsMonster for the "reputation system" alone.
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