Reading RSS feeds can helps journalists
Birmingham City University (UK) School of Media’s Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism and Magazines Paul Bradshaw wrote an interesting article, How to: use RSS and social media for newsgathering, for journalism.co.uk. Bradshaw writes the use of RSS feeds combined with other social media tools can help journalists (i) spot new leads and (ii) put more meat in their stories.
Bradshow lists and discusses adequately nearly all RSS feeds and other social media tools available. He mentions the following:
Blog and site feeds/Social RSS readers
Technorati feeds, fans and tags
Twitter and twitter tools
Bookmarking site feeds, networks and tags
Social network feeds
Google Alerts/’similar pages’
YouTube feeds/related videos
Sites without feeds
It is an interesting article and not only for journalists but also for bloggers or any web-content publisher. The amazing thing is there already are a number bloggers have known about most of these tools before and mostly because as bloggers a number have been Alpha and Beta testers of these tools.
Again, It is an informative and interesting article. A good starting point for talking about more uses and innovations of RSS feeds and more social media tools. One good topic would be handling the information overload.
