Re: Tsunami news on News Rack

Hi,
I've followed your News Rack through the reasearch postings. I want to
know what advantages does News Rack have over Google News and Google
News Alert, aprt from Google being commercial and News Rack being
'free'?
Many thanks,
s


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:42:08 +0530 (IST), Subramanya Sastry
<sastry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> With support from Sarai's FLOSS independent fellowship between April and
> September, I started work on an automated news monitoring tool called
> News Rack.
> 
> A very preliminary system has been up and running for the past 2 months. At
> this time, responding to suggestions from friends, I have created a profile on
> News Rack to collect tsunami-related newsclippings (from a few newspapers
> providing RSS feeds) and categorize them.  I have created a quick and
> rudimentary categorization at this time -- it can (and will be) refined over
> time -- please feel free to email me your suggestions as to how this can be
> recategorized.
> 
> You can visit this page at:
> http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack/Browse.do?owner=tsunami&issue=tsunami
> News on this page will be continually updated.
> 
> You can also visit this by clicking on the 'Browse' link on the front page
> http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack
> 
> I will not pretend that this will be terribly useful to many of you, but,
> perhaps it might be of some interest and use to hopefully some of you.
> Having said that, I have found interesting articles that I would otherwise
> have not seen.
> 
> Feedback on the classification specifically, and more generally about the tool
> is welcome and appreciated.
> 
> Subbu.
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