Narcosphere RSS

Posted by Dan Feder - May 6, 2005 at 9:34 pm
After requests from readers, we’ve finally gotten a working RSS feed for the Narcosphere. Scoop, the software the Narcosphere runs on, has a feature to produce an RSS feed but I could never quite get it to work (it seems to work fine on other sites using scoop). The new feed is consistently current with the top notebook entries. Subscribe to it here:

http://www.narconews.com/narcosphere.xml

But remember, this feed just features top notebook entries – the latest comments from our  copublishers will not appear in the feed, so keep coming back to the site regularly to check out all the new content.

We also have feeds for the latest headlines from The Narco News Bulletin, available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

RSS feeds are a way to quickly scan for new content on news sites. Here’s a pretty good explanation of the technology from this week’s Wall Street Journal.

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I was a member of the Narco News team in various capacities, from webmaster to Editor-in-Chief, from 2002-2008. Since 2006 I have also been a member of the International Peace Observatory, which performs human rights accompaniment for Colombian campesino organizations in conflict zones. I am now living in Boston and working as a website developer for DigitalAid, Inc.
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Using these RSS feeds to promote Narco News

Submitted on June 30th, 2005 by Benjamin Melançon
If you're here, you probably think more people should know about Narco News stories.

One way get the truth (and the inspiration of Latin American social movements) out there is to make links to Narco News and Narcosphere stories at news or discussion sites that allow for democratic input, when an article here is relevant to the mission or topic there.

One such sight is NowPublic.com, which allows you to "demand coverage" of particular stories (as I just did for Shannon Young's report on the attack against Noticias.  If a NowPublic member is in Oaxaca, you can be sure they'll post a photo of the state-encouraged siege of the newspaper to accompany the link).

Once you've signed up at a site like NowPublic you can add both Dan Feder's feeds for Narco News RSS and Narcosphere RSS to your personal account as news sites to monitor.  Then it's simple to bring the story to the attention of a new audience, with the teaser paragraph and a link they can follow.

There are also news aggregator sites such as SmartActivist.org where you can put their "bookmarklet" on your browser to put any article you think is worth dissemination.

Please list other sites like this you may know of here, or e-mail me at b_nn <at> melanconent <dot> com or with this web form.

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I was a member of the Narco News team in various capacities, from webmaster to Editor-in-Chief, from 2002-2008. Since 2006 I have also been a member of the International Peace Observatory, which performs human rights accompaniment for Colombian campesino organizations in conflict zones. I am now living in Boston and working as a website developer for DigitalAid, Inc.