Paul Bradshaw Senior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com) Blogger, Online Journalism Blog ‘ Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering’ (or: How to combine RSS and social networks to find ideas, leads and contacts)

New types of information

New types of journalist

link

link

RSS

What sites have RSS? News sites Blogs Facebook, MySpace etc. Flickr (tags, comments, friends and groups only) YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Twitter Delicious, Digg, etc.

News sites

Blogs

Facebook, MySpace etc.

Flickr (tags, comments, friends and groups only)

YouTube, Vimeo, etc.

Twitter

Delicious, Digg, etc.

Other useful RSS tools Page2RSS.com Feedburner Google Docs 9cays

Page2RSS.com

Feedburner

Google Docs

9cays

Searches by RSS Google News Search, Yahoo News Technorati, icerocket, ljseek Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes) video.google.com, YouTube Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit Boardreader Add mloovi

Google News Search, Yahoo News

Technorati, icerocket, ljseek

Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net

Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes)

video.google.com, YouTube

Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit

Boardreader

Add mloovi

Monitor the conversation (ego)

7 things you can do now Create an account with an RSS reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines). Add : 2 news site feeds 2 blog feeds 1 blog search feed (use Technorati or Google Blog Search) 1 news search feed (use Google News) 1 Twitter search feed (use search.twitter.com) 1 forum search feed (use Boardreader) 1 delicious tag feed

Create an account with an RSS reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines). Add :

2 news site feeds

2 blog feeds

1 blog search feed (use Technorati or Google Blog Search)

1 news search feed (use Google News)

1 Twitter search feed (use search.twitter.com)

1 forum search feed (use Boardreader)

1 delicious tag feed

Get social

Managing your feeds Tip: create 10 category folders (e.g. searches; local; ego; Asia) and have max 5 feeds in each Use Yahoo! Pipes to truncate, filter and combine your RSS feeds

Tip: create 10 category folders (e.g. searches; local; ego; Asia) and have max 5 feeds in each

Use Yahoo! Pipes to truncate, filter and combine your RSS feeds

More things you can do now Add 2 RSS feeds recommended by Google Reader 2 Delicious users to your network (see who has bookmarked the same things) 2 ‘similar sites’ brought up by a Google search 2 blogs that link to a blog you subscribe to (use Technorati)

Add 2 RSS feeds recommended by Google Reader

2 Delicious users to your network (see who has bookmarked the same things)

2 ‘similar sites’ brought up by a Google search

2 blogs that link to a blog you subscribe to (use Technorati)

Paul Bradshaw Senior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com) Blogger, Online Journalism Blog [email_address]