Web-Based Clipping
Posted by mop Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:15:00 GMT
Suzan suggests that a market may exists for a web-based clipping service. Prior to the net explosion, clipping services monitored periodical content and ’clipped’ articles based on customer interests. Some of this function is now served by RSS news aggregators and search engines. But there is still chaff among the kernels of RSS and search results.
A number of fee-based web clipping services exists:
- Custom Scoop appears to focus on wire feeds and dailies and the field of public affairs; $300/mo USD and up.
Metro Monitor watches TV, especially in smaller markets; price unknown.
NewsLibrary provides archives of newspaper content, charging a small fee per article downloaded.
- WebClipping.com might be the closest offering to Suzan’s idea, appears to have adaptive filtering; pricing not available.
Two thoughts... would a clipping service need to index content or utilize existing indexes (Google etc); is automated (adaptive?) filtering enough or is human intervention still of value?
