Announcing Catholic News Live!
I recently launched a new news aggregator website, Catholic News Live, which runs atop Managing News, a Drupal-based feed aggregator. The site grabs about 50 different Catholic website and blog feeds every three-to-five minutes, and pulls all the stories into the main feeds page.
After that, I manually sort the stories into one of many different 'channels,' which basically hold stories pertaining to a certain topic. The front page has it's own feed (with all aggregated stories), and each channel has a feed. In fact, you can even go to the Search page, search for a topic, then grab a feed for that topic!
There are a few highlighted searches already, but you can search for whatever you'd like and save that as a feed (kind of like Google News' daily email digest functionality, but more instantaneous).
All of this funcationality is built into Managing News (a great all-in-one solution, bye the way), and I'm excited for what the future of the site holds. Right now I have all the 'News' channel items feeding into the Catholic News Live Twitter feed (@cathnewslive) via HootSuite, but I may switch to using the Drupal Twitter module at some point (haven't decided how much I want to stick in the Twitter stream yet).
Does anyone want to help sort the news? At this point, it's just me, and it can get a little tedious ;-)
Also, if you see a feed missing, please comment on this post with a link, or find out how to get your feed added on the CNL About pages. You can also grab a badge to display whether your site is featured on CNL from the badges page!
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Great job Jeff. Funny, I was thinking about the same thing the past few months. Would love to help, but I'm pretty bogged down with other stuff.
'Tis okay. I'm hoping to make it easier for more people to help at some point in the near future. Right now I have to set up an account and such, and it's not a two-second process yet :-)
Advancing the faith.
Cool! I am hoping to free up more in about 3 months. I'm not all that familiar with Drupal but it would be good exposure.
Wow, Catholic News Live looks great! It certainly fits the general style of your other sites, but at the same time there is noticeable improvement in page layout.
Well, thank you John!
Advancing the faith.
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