Spreading The Word: Football Filter

I have to admit that I am something of a creature of habit, particularly where technology is involved. If I'm comfortable with how something is working, then I don't really tend to go out to look for ways to improve on it.

It is why I've always stuck to NewsNow.co.uk to get an overview of the latest stories concerning Liverpool. When I stumbled across Google Reader, however, I realised that this too could be a good way to gather stories and I had a similar reaction when I started experimenting with Twitter.

So now my habits are slightly changing which is why I decided to take a look at a couple of football specific web spidering services and here Football Filter is at the forefront.

The idea behind this is similar to NewsNow even if the layout is much more pleasing. Stories are split by source so that, if there are any sites that you don't like, you can easily skip over them. Another nice feature is that, when you scroll over a news story, a brief excerpt of that story appears along with an approximation of when it was published. Indeed, it is also possible to customize the site and adjust the length of time elapsed since the publication of the article.

That you can toggle between the sort of sites that you want - e.g. broadsheets or blogs - is another useful feature that adds to the validity of the site as a source of information.

The only major downside of this set-up is that when a site stops updating its articles it stays there with its old news. The only way that can be fixed is manually by the site's authors which can be a bit cumbersome when you have over fifty sub-sites for various teams and leagues.

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