Yahoo has launched Yahoo News for local area news. The product is still only a beta but is offered from the Yahoo News area. It allows users to select a city and then aggregates local news from a number of mainstream media sources from the local area. Since I am in Chicago this is the page that I see. Unfortunately the beta does not yet offer syndication feeds (RSS or Atom) of the local area content. I am hoping that feeds are added soon.
The Yahoo local news aggregator is ultimately just another bell or whistle to add to Yahoo News product. However, I currently think Topix.net offers a better local news aggregation service since it pulls from more sources, offers syndication feeds for any local area and offers local news content of just about every US zip code.
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You're right Topix.net offers the best local news section. Do you know Stepwebz.com (http://www.stepwebz.com) they also have an interesting news section and you can syndicate their content too.
Posted by: iloveblogandrss | Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 12:56 PM