No Kings TV is an easy way to browse news about the No Kings protests this weekend across 120 sources in 21 US Metro areas. Now with Mastodon hashtags!
RSSForager — RSS Feed Discovery Featuring WordPress
RSSForager uses WordPress to find RSS feeds with similar content to the feed or text block of your choice. Here’s how it works.
Putting Together an AI-Free Similar RSS Feed Finder (Featuring WordPress)
Been thinking a lot about RSS lately. I am definitely seeing an uptick in visits to RSSGizmos.com and more blog posts about RSS are showing up in my feed reader. While there are lots of tools out there for keyword-searching RSS feeds, I found myself wanting something to discover RSS feeds with similar content. So […]
Researching Public Figures in the Epstein Birthday Book, Part I: MiniGladys
MiniGladys is a collection of four Wikipedia-based research tools. In the time it takes for a few clicks and a few reads you can get background on Leon Black, for example, find major news stories linked to him, and discover topics related to him that you might not know about. Here’s how.
Topical Monitoring Via Wikipedia Categories
I have mentioned a book I wrote called Information Trapping. It was about using tools like keyword-based RSS feeds and Google Alerts to curate content across the Web. Fast forward 18 years later and, while keyword-based news RSS feeds are still useful, I’m finding Google Alerts increasingly clogged with junk. That’s why I’m trying to idea of monitoring Wikipedia categories to watch topics that aren’t easily defined by keyword-based RSS feeds.
An Updated Version of the OPML Peeler
One of the many web sites I’ve scattered everywhere is RSS Gizmos ( https://rssgizmos.com/ ) which has a number of tools for discovering, creating, and using RSS. One of them is OPML Peeler, which takes an OPML file (OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language; an OPML file in this context is basically a bundle […]
Happy Blaugust! Finding Blogs to Follow
Blaugust is here! Even if you don’t have time to participate by writing, Blaugust is a great time to jump in and explore the blogosphere. It’s still there, I promise!
Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available
Last month I made a tool called the Temporary Obsessions Feed Reader (you can see my writeup here.) The TOFR is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. This is a powerful feature when you combine it with keyword-based RSS feeds. I have used TOFR for […]
Browse 660 US TV Stations by State/Metro Area and View Recent Content
I made a new site because there’s a lot of information warfare going on and I wasn’t aware of any place to find content from *only* FCC-licensed television stations. So presenting Local News TV – browse 660 US television stations by state and metro area and view recent broadcast content via YouTube. Super simple to […]
No Kings TV
EDIT: No Kings TV is up at https://searchtweaks.com/nkt/ . I’ve done the initial sweep of the top 20 markets and after finding all the RSS I could I’ve got 73 resources listed. More will be added as I go through the resources listed in US Local News Search, but I need to let my brain […]