I AM often asked how I source and follow news stories for my sites and I've written a piece about how I do it using RSS feeds and the importance of making them work for you, see using RSS feeds to stay up to date.
But journalism lecturer Paul Bradshaw has gone on a few steps further than me to look at ways to both track down and ultimately to receive news updates in your chosen field with a great piece entitled, RSS + social media = “Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering”.
Personally the thing I take away from this is the importance of the link; make it easy for others to link to you, but equally taking your readers to interesting destinations on the web can increase your presence on many of the networks that you are following and taking part in in the first place.
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