Possible Values for region in Google News Feeds
Region Country
au Australia
ca Canada
in India
ie Ireland
nz New Zealand
en_za South Africa
uk United Kingdom
In addition to feeds for general topics, you can generate a feed for a specific search term
in Google News (an extremely useful feature you will use when constructing targeted feeds
later in the chapter):
http://news.google.com/news?q={query}&output={output}
For example, to follow news on mashups, use this:
http://news.google.com/news?q=mashup&output=rss
Yahoo! News has some similarities to Google News. In addition to getting feeds by large
categories, listed here:
http://news.yahoo.com/rss
you can also get feeds by keywords via http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p={search-term}.
For example:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=Hurricane+Katrina
News Aggregators: Showing Flickr Feeds Elsewhere
A primary use of feeds is to allow you as an end user to keep up with lots of information from
many different sources??”all in one place. News aggregators (also known as feed readers) gather
items from the feeds you subscribe to and present them to you to read in a single interface.
Subscribing to feeds has become such a sufficiently mainstream activity for web users
that modern web browsers now provide options for doing so when the user arrives at an RSS
or Atom feed in the browser. For example, in Firefox 2.
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