Wednesday, January 4, 2006

RSS Feeds for the Cleveland Clinic

You can keep up with all the medical news from the Cleveland Clinic by subscribing to the following feeds:

Cleveland Clinic in the News

Subscribe to RSS to receive updates when the Cleveland Clinic is mentioned in any newspaper article or any other news outlet on the web.

Google News
Copy the URL address below in your RSS reader of choice:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&hs=XhE&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&tab=nn&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=cleveland+clinic&output=atom

Yahoo News

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=%22cleveland+clinic%22/v=2/SID=e/l=NRE/SIG=1304gqnc6/EXP=1124739601/*-http%3A//news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=%22cleveland+clinic%22&ei=UTF-8&fl=0

MSN News

http://search.msn.com/news/results.aspx?q=%22cleveland+clinic%22&format=rss&FORM=RSNR

GYM (Google, Yahoo, MSN) can be used to monitor anything you are interested in. Just subscribe to the RSS feed for the search results. Whenever there is a new development about your topic of interest, you will get notified.

RSS Feed for the main Cleveland Clinic web page via FeedTier

You do not need to visit the website to check for updates, they will be delivered directly to you via RSS. Note: the official Cleveland Clinic website does not have a RSS feed yet, this service is provided by FeedTier. Copy the address below in your feed reader of choice:

http://feedtier.somee.com/?http://www.clevelandclinic.org/

RSS from "feed-less" websites

You can get RSS from any web page by changing the URL in FeedTier, for example:

http://feedtier.somee.com/?http://www.example.com

Change "example.com" to the address of the website you want to monitor for changes. Other free services that help you create RSS feeds from feedless websites are Ponyfish, FeedYes.com and Feed43.com.

New to RSS? See the tutorial "How to subscribe to medical RSS feeds on Bloglines" (PDF).

Update 2/24/2006:
1. It looks like the FeedTier service is no longer working.
2. The Cleveland Clinic uses this page text and ideas on the its official website (permitted by me): RSS Feeds for the Cleveland Clinic.

Update 3/15/2007:
Feedity is another service for creating RSS from feed-less web pages.

References:
A really simple guide to a powerful tool: RSS. BMJ Career Focus 2006;332:244.
Google Alerts Tutorial To Help You Stay Ahead of the Curve. DigitalInspiration.
Google Reader Tutorial. DavidRothman.net.
Dynamically create RSS feeds for RSS-less Web sites. LifeHack.org.
Image sources: public domain.

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