In Class Exercise

The Seattle Times has about 47 RSS feeds--set up similarly to their online newspaper layout. The feeds are primarly organized by the sections the newspaper covers (nation, local, sports). There are also 2 feeds that correspond to the most read and most emailed articles.

OhMyNews has about 13 RSS feeds. These are organized somewhat more randomly. They list Korea, World, Technology, Art and Life, etc... Then in a separate section, they list more specifically each region of the world: Asia, Americas, etc.

Seattle Times seems to be better organized, but limited to the scope of their newspaper whereas ohmynews seems to have a more general focal scope. Neither require a fee to access RSS. Neither support blogs. Both impact mainstream news in that the reader is in control of the content he/she consumes, not the news organization.

Part II.
Sorting the Stephen Colbert by funny stuff etc, produces less results. And changing the authority also changes the qty of results--greater authority produces less... less authority produces more.

Clicking on the tag link after I serached for my topic, produced images and offered related tags as well. That would be helpful in searching for related topics and find things I haven't thought about. Blog finder definately decreased the number of results.

Blogcritics.org produced 13,381 results. It also automatically changed it to sort by freshness. This tells me that that many bloggers have linked that site to their site.