http://tech-blog.mpierson.net/articles/2005/02/09/sef-clippingService en-us 40 Mike Pierson's technology blog <p>Suzan suggests that a market may exists for a web-based clipping service. Prior to the net explosion, clipping services monitored periodical content and &rsquo;clipped&rsquo; articles based on customer interests. Some of this function is now served by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator#Online_news_aggregators">RSS news aggregators</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine">search engines</a>. But there is still chaff among the kernels of RSS and search results.</p> <p>A number of fee-based web <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=news+clipping+service">clipping services</a> exists:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.customscoop.com/">Custom Scoop</a> appears to focus on wire feeds and dailies and the field of public affairs; $300/mo USD and up.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://www.metromonitor.com/">Metro Monitor</a> watches TV, especially in smaller markets; price unknown.</li></p> <li><p><a href="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives/?p_action=home&p_product=NewsLibrary&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_queryname=4000&d_sources=home&d_place=&p_nbid=&p_multi=&s_search_type=keyword&s_home=clip">NewsLibrary</a> provides archives of newspaper content, charging a small fee per article downloaded.</p></li> <li><a href="http://www.webclipping.com/">WebClipping.com</a> might be the closest offering to Suzan&rsquo;s idea, appears to have adaptive filtering; pricing not available.</p></li> </ul> <p>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?</p> Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:15:00 -0500 urn:uuid:3bcb62d350e5cce134bf5c3c26cfd009 mop http://tech-blog.mpierson.net/articles/2005/02/09/sef-clippingService media http://tech-blog.mpierson.net/articles/trackback/131