Programmatic Data Aggregation
Aggregator2 = open source newstracking tool for nonprofits
URL = http://drupal.org/node/32384
"Enter Aggregator2, an add-in module for the Drupal content management system. Drupal has previously gotten some love on this site as the platform behind projects like Deanspace, Participate.net and eAsylum. Aggregator2 turns the Drupal platform into a powerful tool for news tracking and republishing by offering options for customizing news feeds, tagging news items, and moderating incoming news.
That feature set makes Aggregator2 an exceptionally flexible choice for setting up a nonprofit news tracker that aggregates news from a wide range of blogs, news sites and search engines. Because Aggregator2 saves each individual item as an independent node (like a web page) in Drupal, you can edit or annotate news items after you bring them onto your site. Because Aggregator2 lets you assign different tags to different incoming feeds, you can set up different news pages for different topics, and direct news to show up on the appropriate pages. And Aggregator2 is also a terrific tool for integrating content from multiple related web sites or overlapping organizations.
At Social Signal we've used Aggregator2 to help move news through the different parts of the emergent telecentre.org network. We use it to bring news and links onto our own web site, including a web page that rounds up nonprofit technology news based on the nptech tag and other search terms. And we used Aggregator2 to set up a pilot aggregation site, Confeederation, to track candidate blogs during the recent Canadian federal elections." (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004355.html)