Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition: General News
Posted by Romain Goday on Tue, Nov 09, 2010
General News is the first in our series of themed Darwin Editions™ that focus on specific topics to better demonstrate the capabilities of the Darwin Awareness Engine and as a service to our readers. These can each be accessed at no cost. You only have to go through a brief registration process. The initial themes include: general news (our original alpha), social media on the web, social media in the enterprise, US immigration discussion, and oil and gas industry news.
This general news edition served as our initial Alpha test site and it can be accessed at: http://www.darwinalpha.com/. See our post: Darwin Awareness Engine™ Edition Series: Part One – Explanation and Instructions for more about the series and how to make the most of it.
The target content in for this edition includes almost 500 sources, including traditional news sites such as the CNN, CBS News, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Radio Canada sites, various Reuters sites, and the BBC. They are many more including various newspapers within the US and Canada. There are also a number of French language sites such as Le Monde and Le Figaro. In addition, there are a number of blogs such as Mashable, The Apple Blog, ReadWriteWeb, and the NHL blogs. There are also a number of news feeds on a variety of topics, some looking at blogs and others at mainstream media.
You can either look at the general buzz from these sites or choose attractors to focus on specific topics of interest. The default shows you what has happened in the target content sources in the last hour. You can expand it to the last two hours, 24 hours and even last 200 hours. You can focus on the more formal sources or the informal ones (bloggers) or look across both. Again, details instructions can be found in our post on instructions.
We look forward to your questions and feedback. Please contact us at feedback@DarwinEco.com. We will also be happy to discussion the various business options for a fully functional Darwin Edition with all administration rights. You can create your own Darwin Editions on the topics of your choice with the target content of your selection. There are both individual and enterprise options.
Currently you will see up to the 31 most recent articles in the formal (news sites) and informal (blogs, etc.) sources in the right column. If you want to limit the scan cloud and returns to blogs then create an attractor that limits returns to blogs (see our instructions post for creating an attractor).