Erucall News Media

For a professional look to your work as an independent online publisher, various tools are used to facilitate independent publishing. Some of the tools such as publishing platforms or Aggregators are available as open source softwares or for a fee.

Below is information from one of the leading authorities in News aggregation, Mysyndicaat which allows Independent online publishers “news/content” collection pipeline from various sources and the ability to publish directly to your site.

MySyndicaat is a web-based software solution aimed at supporting news professionals in their daily tasks of content collection, filtering, monitoring and content delivery. MySyndicaat provides an all-inclusive solution for newsradars generation and maintenance.

MySyndicaat is provided free-of-charge to any web user for personal and non-commercial use. Commercial customers are charged according to the size of their data sets, number of supported newsradars and quality of service. Commercial customers are invited to test the service in “real” scenarios.

MySyndicaat provides an all-in-one solution for the following broad categories of functionality:

• Content aggregation from multiple heterogeneous sources

• Content filtering based on powerful user-defined rules or manual inclusion/exclusion operations

• Content classification or re-classification

• Powerful support for configuration management (import/export, OPML support, OPML reading lists, newsradars management)

• Re-publishing support (HTML rendering, re-feeding, digest support)

• Multiple viewer support (river-of-news, search-like result sets, multiple sorting options)

• Content editing (annotation support, tagging, ranking, e-mail publishing, PDF support)

MySyndicaat is a personalized aggregator built on the idea that it should be easy to collect, filter and share web content that is important to you and others. MySyndicaat allows you to:

Gather

Aggregate content from a wide array of information sources on the web - automate keyword searches (Google, Yahoo …), pull in RSS feeds from news organizations, monitor discussions on blogs. Content can be automatically updated to ensure information is current.

Filter

News and information can be filtered to ensure relevant, concise content. Remove duplicates, create user-defined rules to include or exclude news posts based on text, categories or date/time ranges. Allow manual inclusion, exclusion of posts in your content.

Deliver

Aggregated content can be delivered to your users or subscribers using news feeds, web pages, or published directly on your web site. Dynamic streams of news can be created dynamically from your aggregated news to create domain specific dossiers of information.

In the coming week I will profile 3 Publishing platforms(MovableType, Wordpress and Joomla), starting with movable type as publishing platform that allows independent publishers to achieve:

1. Background publishing

2. Multiple supported and scalable system architectures

3. Static publishing

Compiled by

Jeff Makana

Chief Editor