I often look for wierd, off-beat news stories for one of the blogs that I write, and am wondering if anyone has any ideas for automating things a little bit. I don't like using anything from AP, because it is allready overused by the mainstream media and not terribly unique, so I often manually search online newspapers around the country for funny, small townish sort of news stories. I use www.usnpl.com as my directory for newspapers around the country, but unfortunately it is a horribly tedious, manual process to find the kind of stories I (and hopefully others) enjoy. I've thought about using RSS, but that only helps a little bit, and a lot of the smaller town newspapers that tend to have some of the funniest stories don't have RSS. Any help or resources would be much appreciated.
Here are a few of my favorite places to find weird news stories: 1. www.fark.com 2. www.digg.com Fark is usually 99% weird news stories. And digg usually has a good amount in the mix as well.
well you are welcome to take my stories that always happen to me just check my blogs. I always post a few weird stories / news a week. Just link back