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Old 5th October 2007, 09:26 PM
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Just curious. Is it a member? Or is it a robot that pulls news from some site? Where did it come from? Anyone know?
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Oh so it's computerized and takes the news from BBC site. Ok, thanks.
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yes mate - still not sure how long he'll be around for though
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Seems that the News Bot is a bit biased towards British news. The top 3 new articles are about Lilly Allen, someone named Kaplinsky, and Radiohead. Is there a way to maybe get news from the BBC AND maybe something American like CNN or FOX News or something, just to balance out the news stories?

Just a suggestion.
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If you can recommend any quality news feeds (rss feeds me thinks), please post them here for us to gander at.
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Two RSS news sites:

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Cool! Four sites to pull news from. Should be good.
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Now whether it is possible... that's another matter.

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