Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Web feeds
Did you know you could get Web feeds of Miami Herald stories and blogs? Web feeds are the latest name for RSS or XML feeds, sometimes called newsfeeds or news syndications or aggregations. The Herald's RSS page explains how it works and gives you a list of feeds available (just about every news category). It also gives you a link to News readers you can download from Download.com. I have some other suggestions. If you don't want to download a reader, there are a couple things you can do online. My Yahoo! lets you add any Web feed to your personal page. Bloglines is a Web-based feed reader, you just need to sign up. Feedster does much of the same thing. For more on feeds and readers and how they work, here's some good explanations from How Stuff Works and Wikipedia. posted by liz at 5:31 PM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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