Get the OJR by RSS

Get the OJR by RSS

Seems like publications should start looking at services like Feedfinder to see if people have setup RSS feeds of their content. If people are setting up scraped feeds they need to get with the program and craft their own.

I love Online Journalism Review, and read it nearly daily. Unfortunately, this site still does not offer its own RSS feed. However, programmer Jim Winstead has created a pretty decent scraped feed for OJR (just subscribe to this URL in your feed reader: http://trainedmonkey.com/news/rss.php?s=41). This is my preferred tool for following the site. I found the feed through Feedster’s Feedfinder tool.

I realize that scraped feeds are controversial. Some people think that if a site does not offer its own feed, it’s unethical to scrape it or to subscribe to a scraped feed. Personally, I don’t (…) [Poynter E-Media Tidbits]