When I signed up for my Rojo account, I was automatically signed up for a feed that showed my local city news.
I have learned several things from that feed. Recently, while driving home from work, there were tons of cops on one of the main roads in the city. I learned the next day that all of the cities along the road were participating in a huge crackdown to try and slow down the traffic to prevent more accidents that have been increasing recently.
I also learned that while my daughter is not going to be able to go to public preschool because the funding isn’t there for 3 year olds with no at risk factors, a few private schools are eligible for some of that funding which might give us a better chance to get her in preschool at one of them if they increase their staffing.
I don’t ever read the newspaper or watch TV news and most online news doesn’t cover the local news very well. I’ve been addicted to this little innocent looking feed that I almost deleted when I first noticed it.
Just today I decided that I want to expand on my tightly targetted feeds to help me keep track of some niches that I’m interested in. I did a little research into how the feed was created and found that it is actually coming from Topix.net. I typed in a couple new searches and found that they somehow seem to provide some really nice information that I probably would never easily find and track any other way.
I don’t think that I ever plan on setting up a home page on their website, but I will be adding a few of their feeds to my Bloglines and Rojo accounts.
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