Disruptive ProactivityiQuango.org News feeds
One of the things I wanted to do with iQuango.org is to make the news from NGOs searchable by topic across the NGO sector. A small start is scraping reliefweb and doing what was described as “better alerts”, and also doing a best guess at adding links back to the source.
reliefweb drops that information and only gives the name (which it internally links to a useless page); so we take the headline and run it through google search to find the page (and include an “feeling lucky” link). We use the main google search page rather than Google news so that the links continue into the future; even when the post isn’t news any more.
The plan is to start adding more (non-RSSed) sources to iQuango News as soon as the latest version of mellanrummet is done (which is next on my list. I’m planning on starting with the IMF and WorldBank. What else should I add my little list?