[WEB4LIB] Re: alternative to NewsIsFree?

[D.H. Mattison]

FeedPlex (http://www.feedplex.com/), founded in May 2004, bills itself as
"The Archive of Syndication." So far they've managed to only index around
700 sources of the 12,000+ they feel are out there (RSS and other formats).
It looks like, from my search of News Articles for the word "space," that
they were going to cache content. When I tried the "Cached" link I got this
message:

"Our archived cache feature is currently under-development, as it was due
launching at the end of May, 2004, but however, due to several inconvenient
reasons, it is now delayed to be released to public."

David Mattison
Victoria, BC, Canada
dmattison at shaw.ca
The Ten Thousand Year Blog blurb on FeedPlex
(http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/index.php?p=623)

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Lars Aronsson
Sent: August 19, 2004 3:42 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: alternative to NewsIsFree?


Tara Calishain answered a question:

> >Would someone recommend news aggregators similar to the NewIsFree?
> >With the option of filtering news for certain topic and providing
> >ready sources feeds blocks - e.g. Tech News
>
> Holy cow, there are billions of them at this point.

Is there one that allows downloading of old news? A news feed is a
daily flow, but is there anyone who archives them by day and year and
allows a timeline-based search or presentation?  Where can I dig up
the news feeds for October 2002?

Journal digitization projects such as JSTOR could in theory create
news feeds from 1972 and 1872, but has anybody done this?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik