Chapter 7: News, Talk, and Blogs on the Net

CNNfn, http://www.cnnfn.com
New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com
AlltheWeb.com News, http://www.alltheweb.com
Google News, http://news.google.com/
Yahoo! News, http://news.yahoo.com
American City Business Journals, http://www.bizjournals.com
FindArticles.com, http://www.findarticles.com
CBS MarketWatch Alerts,
https://secure.marketwatch.com/login/registration.asp?siteid=
mktw&dist=&returnURL=%2Ftools%2Falerts
%2Fcreatealert%2Easp%3FsiteID%3Dmktw

Google News Alerts, http://www.google.com/newsalerts
CNN Alerts, http://www.cnn.com/EMAIL/bnews.alerts
PaidContent, http://www.paidcontent.org
TechRepublic, http://www.techrepublic.com
DayPop, http://www.daypop.com
HighBeam, http://www.highbeam.com
TheStreet.com, http://www.thestreet.com
MSN Money, http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp
National Public Radio, http://www.npr.org
C-Span, http://www.c-span.org
Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com
Nightly Business Report, http://www.nightlybusiness.org
CNBC/Dow Jones, http://www.cnbcdowjones.com
Topix.net, http://www.topix.net
Rocketinfo, http://www.rocketinfo.com
Newslink, http://newslink.org/
ABYZ News Links, http://www.abyznewslinks.com
NewsDirectory.com, http://www.newsdirectory.com
SLA News Archive, http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archivesindex.html
Factiva, http://www.factiva.com
BUSLIB-L: To sign up, http://www.willamette.edu/~gklein/buslib.htm
SlashDot, http://www.slashdot.org
AndrewSullivan.com, http://www.andrewsullivan.com
BloggerCon, http://www.bloggercon.org/
WayPath, http://www.waypath.com
Tile.net, http://www.tile.net
CataList, http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
Epinions, http://www.epinions.com
WebFountain, http://www.factiva.com/webfountain
Biz360, http://www.biz360.com
Converseon, http://www.converseon.com
Technorati, http://www.technorati.com
New York Times: CyberTimes, http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

UPDATE AND ADDITIONS: NOVEMBER 2004

Online News and Media Services

In addition to the general news aggregation home page that we listed in the book, we’ve recently discovered that Topix.net also creates special pages where it aggregates business and company news:

Business News, http://www.topix.net/business

Not only are headlines of business news listed on this page, but you can click on any of dozens of specific industries to get the latest industry headlines as well.

Company News, http://www.topix.net/com/list

A listing of hundreds of companies where Topix.net has aggregated breaking news

Links to News Sites

Kidon Media Link, http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml

A valuable source for locating online news

News Alert Services

NetNewsTracker, http://www.netnewstracker.com

This is a new free news alert service we just came across that is worth noting. NetNewsTracker lets you track USENET newsgroup discussions (via the Google Groups feature) by keyword, with results delivered via email.

PubSub, http://www.pubsub.com

This is another very interesting alert service I like. PubSub is actually a cross between a news alert service and an RSS Reader, since after you compose your keyword profile, PubSub runs it against RSS Feeds of Weblogs, online discussion groups, and other collections, and then alerts you to matches via email and other technologies,

If you’re interested in learning more about comparing the features and quality of competing news alert services, you might wish to consider a guide I wrote that was published in November 2004 by Information Today:

Berkman, Robert. Choosing and Using a News Alert Service. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2004 (https://www.infotoday.com/pressreleases/pr040908-1.shtml).