Before I joined the Government Digital Service, I hacked together some Local Government news feeds into RSS. I did this under the guise of LocalGovBot.
I basically looked at each local authority’s website and catalogued some of their digital output. You can view the work so far in this spread sheet.
After Housing Camp, I was inspired to see how I could present these in a readable format. As I’d been banging on about automation, I decided to use If This Then That + an app that would work on desktop and mobile devices.
The collected feeds are shared via Google Reader (which will be switched off in July 2013). Using If This Then That, I selected an existing recipe to push news items in Pocket.
Hit me up if you want to know more.
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