Features improved include:

1. A redesigned user interface.
2. It has New templates.
3. A more simpler and streamlined procedures for creating widgets.

NewsGators widget allows businesses – in particular brand and media companies – to build, deploy, and track widgets.

NewsGators widgets platform enable business and on-line publishers to engage its readers by using social media and newsGators Web 2.0 syndication productst:

1. RSS Readers
2. Widget Framework
3. Community Publisher
4. Widget Ads

Even without the widget ads and speaking as a blogger. These widgets does seem to offer the tools one needs to better the reading experience of ones visitors to the blog.

More information about NewsGator Widgets can be seen here.

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NewsGator’s Editors Desk 2.1

And the idea behind seem twofold:

First, to create a financial lifestream. This is done by selecting certain financial events. The lifestream will enable its creator and user to monitor incomes and expenses.

Second, to share this lifestream with friends so that the creator can be given advise about on his financial matters. Friends as financial advisers.

I am not quite sure if this is for everyone. It could be helpful among family members or individuals with common financial interests ie they are investing money jointly. Or even among family members who are geographically far apart.

It is a no fuss way of sharing financial information. One just has to be careful on what financial information one wants to share. This is sensitive stuff.

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A Financial FriendFeed

So what makes Cherwell interesting?

It was the launching pad of several known journalists and writers like BBC Newsnight reporter and author Michael Crick, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.

The paper bested several dailies with the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales to Diana Spencer.

The paper was also the first newspaper that broke the story that Chelsea Clinton planned take up a masters degree source at Oxford.

Being an Oxford University-based newspaper has its advantages. Even if one is independent but this is what makes the newspaper interesting.

It is a good news source also because Oxford University as an academic institution conducts research. As such, potential discoveries or findings might be found here.

At present there are two RSS feeds for the news and for the comments:

News RSS Feeds can be found at the Front Page

Comment RSS Feeds can be found at the Comment Page

The feed themselves are partial feeds containing only the title and a one sentence summary or description of the article of the file.

One confusing bit about the site is the page called RSS Feeds and is an explanation about the RSS feeds but not a list nor directory of RSS feeds available. This can be confusing because the page does not give a link to the RSS feed. The user then has no choice but to go back to the Front Page.

Interesting site but I have they get to include full text articles in their feed and more visible ways to get the RSS feeds.

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Cherwell and its RSS Feeds

There is even an RSS feed that combine all tech blogs in the Quazion list. But I think it needs some tinkering because it does not seem to work.

This seems to be an interesting website. It would be great if the RSS icon worked. So for now I will bookmark it.

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Quazion an AllTop for Tech News?

There are around twenty five feeds available ranging from Beach House Plans to a Victorian House Plans. Each post in each feed is represented with an artistic rendition of house and the code and name of the house. Clicking on the feed takes one to the page containing the complete data about the house plans.

According to their website:

RSS feed will give you a quick link to the most updated content in our country style home plans collection, instead of returning to the site over and over with no new results in your search. If you are searching for a house plan in a specific style, but haven’t found the perfect plan yet, signing up for Donald A. Gardner RSS feeds will show you the latest home plans added in our most requested categories, including European House Plans, Hillside House Plans and more! [Source]

Getting house plans by RSS seems practical and a savvy move for the the company.

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Getting a house plan by RSS

Mr Fuhrmark hopes that consumers will bookmark the LegalFish Newsroom pages (here) because having easy access to legal news will educate consumers and help them select the most adequate lawyer or law firm best suited for their case.

LegalFish is the first to make use of RSS feeds within the Attorney-Client Matching (ACM) industry.

This is an interesting aggregation of feeds of three of major news and information provider as was previously mentioned – Law.com, LexisNexis, and CNN Law.

The news page is filled with aggregated news from the three law-focused websites. Basically what you get from the page are a list of news article or posts from the three. Most of them are free and easy to get to. However, for Lexis-Nexis Mealy Publication search is for free but you have to pay for whatever post or article you have received.

There seems to be no RSS Icon and feed for the news page itself. Maybe it is still to be added. LegalFish has two others sites UK and Canada but there seems to be only one newsroom page and it is located on website of the Chicage office of LegalFish.

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LegalFish brings all the news you can eat

It is an interesting read and very timely because: (i) Aggregating of RSS feeds have been on the irise (to say the least) and (ii) some web publishers, bloggers and websites, have been placing terms of use in their RSS feeds.

Aiden tackles the different ways RSS is aggregated and how these are considered bad and good. He tackles nearly issue concerning aggregating The post is very informative and important. It is a worth while read. But at the end of the day one has to make a stand or have an opinion on what is proper and improper of aggregating RSS feeds.

One simple rule of thumb: Do not pass the content of the RSS feed as your own and always cite the source of the RSS feed.

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Food for thought: On Aggregating RSS feeds

Free WeatherBug RSS gives you the same live local weather millions have come to rely on. The feed delivers customized local conditions, forecasts, and more for your area or ZIP code of your choosing. Start using Free WeatherBug RSS today to get the most accurate weather available through your favorite RSS reader.[Source]

How do you do it?

Simple just go the site and then click on Start Free WeatherBug RSS Feed button. This will take you to form where you have to fill in the necessary information and information you want to receive and these include:

It will take only a few minutes to do this. And you get your weather tidbits and forecast delivered to you. A few observations about the service: (i) I was unable to get an RSS feed for my country so there maybe some countries that will not have or will be difficult to get an RSS feed, I will try again tomorrow. (ii) Additional weather information may be included in the near future.

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Weather via an RSS Feed

And here is another interesting RSS feed from the Library of Congress.

Podcasts.

I am currently listening to a 28 minute podcast of author Terry Prachett from the 2007 National Book Festival Podcasts:

The 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival is free and open to the public.[Source]

The podcasts are available are a good and diverse selection of materials to choose from – David Baldacci,Terry Prachett, and others.

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Library of Congress blog and podcasts

Of course the the website and the service is enhanced by Greenberg himself, who is well known in the United States as a travel expert:

Greenberg has become known and trusted by millions for the advice, tips and information he imparts as the Travel Editor for NBC’s Today show, CNBC and MSNBC, as the author of The New York Times best-selling Travel Detective series of books, as the host of the nationally syndicated Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio show, and through his appearances as an expert guest on a range of television programs including the Oprah Winfrey Show and The View. [Source]

RSS Feed .. rather RSS Feeds

A hop and skip to the site’s RSS page , here, reveals that around eleven feeds are offered and they are grouped as (i) Peter’s Travel News – the main RSS feed – and (ii) Travel Deals and promotions – which covers a very diverse array of topics from Family Travel deals to Urban Travel and Exotic Travel adventures.

Aside from the lack of an RSS button at the homepage, which I suspect is more for aesthetic reason more than anything else, The use of the RSS feed is quite good. It is a pity that I do not travel around that corner of the world.

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Peter Greenberg and RSS