RSS Basics - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 22

When I conducted my search, I received eight results, with a name of and
a link to the blog, a brief description, the tags associated with the blog, and
a note about when the blog was last updated (remember, you don't want to
monitor ghost feeds!). You also get a link that lists who is linking to that
blog, and sometimes you'll see a list of tags at the top of the search results
that are related to the one you searched for (in this case, for example, related
tags are for Vintage Toys and Star Wars).

Pulling the RSS feeds from the found blogs involves revisiting the site to
look for the orange RSS logos or one of the personalized RSS logos from My
Yahoo or another site. It takes a little extra work; on the other hand, the tag
system makes searching for blogs/RSS feeds on more general subjects easier
than using a full-text search engine.

Specialty r S S Feed Direc tories

RSS is popular enough at this point that specialized listings of feeds are becoming available. here
are a couple that might help you in your information trapping:

• Corporate feeds. nooked ( http://dir.nooked.com/home.dir) provides corporate RSS feeds

only. you can search the feeds by keyword or browse for them by category. there's a brief
description of each feed, and some entities have multiple feeds available (press releases,
products, and so forth). this resource isn't 100 percent comprehensive, but it is considerable.

• Newspaper feeds. the Media drop (themediadrop.com/archives/003699.php) is a list of U.S.

newspapers, broken out by state, that have RSS feeds. if you're interested in non-US newspaper
content, check out the list of UK papers that have RSS feeds, available at http://dave.org.uk/
newsfeeds/.

rSS in Searchable Subject indexes
here are many searchable subject indexes of RSS feeds. A searchable sub-
ject index is a directory set up into categories ( Figure 2.13 ).

he categories also have subcategories and sometimes they go into aston-
ishing detail. In addition to being set up into categories, such a directory
is also searchable by keywords (think Yahoo Directory). here are literally