Bloglines Newsreader - RSS Feeds

Bloglines Newsreader is an excellent way of keeping up with the latest news on one website. I'll use it as a companion to Google News to monitor business news stories as they develop. After you sign up for an account, you are directed to http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs.

The Bloglines search enables you to search not just news feeds, but even blogs posted with Blogline. Most helpfully, the search engine enables you to include or exclude your feeds in a search. The results are much more interesting than using Google's blog search.

The blog template in Bloglines enables you to post to a blog, but you cannot edit or remove your posts.

I subscribed to the following news feeds:

baltimoresun.com - business (0) (0)
baltimoresun.com - maryland news (0) (0)
BBC News News Front Page World Edition (200) (0)
Bloglines News (0) (0)
The Herald-Mail Online (200) (0)
NYT > Arts (130) (0)
NYT > Home Page (193) (0)
NYT Book Review (0) (0)
Reuters: Top News (200) (0)
WSJ.com: US Business (200)

It's interesting that you can access a Wall Street Journal news feed through Bloglines even though WSJ Online is a subscription-only service. The New York Times is mostly free, except for the subscription-only TimesSelect selections which include the ed and NYT columns from Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd.

With Bloglines, you can become an armchair media critic. Looking through the news feeds for the Baltimore Sun and the Herald-Mail, it's interesting to see how each media outlet chooses to cover the day's major local and regional stories.

Unfortunately, the Herald-Mail does not break down their blog feeds in sections like the major papers. The feed gives you the ENTIRE paper to scroll through. You might as well just log into the H-M website and select which sections interest you.

I was trying to find the Herald-Mail's take on the Cal Ripken Jr. - Aberdeen Stadium Deal Scandal. None to be found. The Baltimore Sun is covering it to the hilt on the eve of Ripken's induction to the Hall of Fame. Sun reporter Justin Fenton writes: "Several state lawmakers urged Ripken Baseball yesterday to renegotiate deals with the city of Aberdeen and help the small community as it struggles with debts it took on to build a minor league baseball complex."

Baltimore Sun, 7/17/07:
Ripken urged to renegotiate stadium pacts; State lawmakers seek relief for Aberdeen as it struggles to pay debts from complex http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.ha.stadium17jul17,0,5544400.story?track=rss

What isn't clear in any of the Sun's coverage is how much of the $18 million stadium was taxpayer supported and Ripken-backed.