NewsNow: Know what's going on every second of the day

Gary Price and I had a long IM conversation the other day (I love those chats with my near and dear dig-space friends).  During this conversation, he pointed me to a news monitoring service that blew my mind.  Gary has been blogging about this from time to time for a while now.  This time around I took the time to take a look and to listen to him.  Maybe you will too :)

NewsNow is a site out of the UK with feeds from nearly 30,000 different news sources, updated every 5 minutes.  You can search all of the headlines, browse by a specific subject (like Phishing and Email Scams), or get a live feed with every new news item popping to the top of the list.  Stories are marked with flags from their countries of origin as well. 

You could use this to check the accuracy of stories that customers come in trying to validate or check up on, or even grab the news feed and post it on the library's current news website so that your customers can see what's going on in their library and the rest of the world--all at once.

Enjoy!