It’s about time. Steve Matthews notes that the province of BC has launched a bunch of RSS feeds:
To start, they’ve launched a list of topical feeds. You can take a full Government wide news feed, which could be filtered for keywords using tools like FeedDigest or FeedShake; or you can select from a number of pre-selected themes or Ministries. No legislation feeds yet, but we’re sure QP LegalEze is working on it. Also a hidden gem item: Get a feed for Government news surrounding the 2010 Olympic Games!
They’re essentially feeds of press releases, but it’s a step in the right direction. I’m also glad to see they’re fairly neutral about our RSS reader options.
It seems to be making progress in other parts of the government as well. I asked them about RSS feeds for Red Tide warnings, and they replied that they’re looking into it, rather than just ‘Huh?’ which is what I was expecting.
Yeah, not bad.
I submitted the following inquiry: “Looks like good work on providing feeds of ministries and topics. I wonder if you’ll be providing feeds of searches. I’d particularly be interested in feeds for searches of ‘Translink’, ‘SkyTrain’, ‘Vancouver NOT Vancouver Island’, ‘Greater Vancouver’, company names, people’s names, etc. Granted, that kind of thing is usually more resource intensive than regular feeds…”