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he RSS Feed page. Yes, the federal government does ofer RSS feeds! And as
you might expect it ofers a lot of RSS feeds! his aggregation feed (irstgov.
gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/Podcast_RSS.shtml) points you to the
RSS feed pages of various agencies. If you don't have very detailed, esoteric
needs, you might be able to stop here, get a couple of government agency
feeds, and be all set. But if that's not the case, well, proceed to the agency list.
he A-Z Agency List (irstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.
shtml). his page includes a comprehensive list of government agencies,
from the 9/11 Commission to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, and from the Oice of hrit Supervision to the Wyoming state,
county, and city Web sites. It does include pointers to state resources, so this
is another place to look if the state homepage is confusing you. If you know
the name of the agency, you can go straight to it, but otherwise you can do
a little browsing. Sometimes there won't be an agency that covers exactly
that you're looking for. In this case, head to the full-text search engine for a
little general searching.
FirstGov's full-text search engine is available from a query box on the
upper-right part of each page ( Figure 7.22 ).
Figure 7.22
The a-Z agency List
with firstgov's ever-
present search box on
the upper right.