Everybody wants to be a News Director

• Do you check several news sites to get the latest stories?
• Do you check several blogs to read what they have to say?
• Do you create a Google search for the same topic several times a week? ( you can create an RSS feed for a Google search!)
• Do you feel overwhelmed checking all these sites?

What can you do? Common Craft has created a video, RSS in Plain English that explains in simple language (with pictures) what RSS is and why it might be helpful. (I blogged about this in mid-May)

But some web sites don't have an RSS feeder......so now what?
Just go back and keep checking the site in case the author puts up something new? Who has that kind of time?

Feedity was mentioned by the Librarian In Black as a tool to create RSS feeds for web sites that don't have the little orange block!

MySpace doesn't allow RSS feeds (or I haven't figured out how to add one) but you can create a Feedity link and VOILA- automatic RSS feed- if the profile changes....you get a message at your Feed Reader.

Be your own publisher- gather news stories and information that you want from sites you'd normally go to anyway by creating a Feed Reader of your own.