Monkey Vs Robot – My Weekly Idealist post
The other day I ran across AllTop.com’s nonprofit page section, which is a huge list of popular nonprofit blogs, and thought it would be fun to find the most interesting stories from those feeds.
So, I extracted the rss feeds from most of the sites listed (not all, some of the links were dead) and
imported that list into PostRank. PostRank looks at statistical information related to each story, like comments made on a post, popularity of the website, how many times a story has been Dugg, and using that info, a rank between 1 and 10 is given to each blog post.
I decided that I only wanted to see stories with a high ranking, around 8 – 10 and was given a new rss feed of all the stories with a high ranking.
I then imported that rss feed into Feedburner, which allows me to keep track of how many people are checking out the feed as well as add new features to the feed that aren’t normally included, e.g., FeedFlares, which let people share a story on Digg or Reddit or email it to a friend.
So, below you’ll find the consolidated feed of relevant and popular updated nonprofit news from 40+ websites. Enjoy!
[...] Brokekid.net: Scott Stadum of Idealist used the Nonprofit page on AllTop + PostRank & Feedburner to create a consolidated feed of relevant and popular updated nonprofit news from 40+ websites. Read more about it here. [...]
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[...] Brokekid.net: Scott Stadum of Idealist used the Nonprofit page on AllTop + PostRank & Feedburner to create a consolidated feed of relevant and popular updated nonprofit news from 40+ websites. Read more about it here. [...]
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