World History
From time to time, I have seen traffic come to the World History Blog from a website called Topix. I finally went and checked the site out. It is a news aggregator which allows people to volunteer and select the best stories. The site appears to be very popular.
The About Us page notes, "Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city. A Top 20 online news destination (Hitwise, July 2007), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums. Topix also works with the nation's major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds."
I like this site. I was particularly attracted to the History in the News page. I often look through news headlines for good history topics to write about. This site easily delivers them up! Quite a few of the articles are false hits and do not seem very history related but others seems good. It looks like a RoboBlogger also posts news stories which probably accounts for some of the false hits.
Anyway, I liked it. I thought I would share as I have found it difficult to get a good source of "history in the news" type of articles without doing a lot of searching through newspaper sites on the Web. Maybe others will find this useful too.
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World History
Topix: History in the News
From time to time, I have seen traffic come to the World History Blog from a website called Topix. I finally went and checked the site out. It is a news aggregator which allows people to volunteer and select the best stories. The site appears to be very popular.
The About Us page notes, "Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city. A Top 20 online news destination (Hitwise, July 2007), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums. Topix also works with the nation's major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds."
I like this site. I was particularly attracted to the History in the News page. I often look through news headlines for good history topics to write about. This site easily delivers them up! Quite a few of the articles are false hits and do not seem very history related but others seems good. It looks like a RoboBlogger also posts news stories which probably accounts for some of the false hits.
Anyway, I liked it. I thought I would share as I have found it difficult to get a good source of "history in the news" type of articles without doing a lot of searching through newspaper sites on the Web. Maybe others will find this useful too.
- History Weblogs
History Weblogs. Like this site? Want some other history blogs to check out? Here is a small list from the Yahoo Directory. I have removed the link to this blog as you already know about the World History Blog. Here is the list: Diary of Samuel Pepys...
- Bbc News - Open Source History
BBC News - Open Source History. There are now free history clips online from the BBC! The site notes, "We're pleased to present links to nearly 80 pieces of video and audio covering iconic news stories and events of the last 50 years. You might feel...
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