Lexington Kentucky - Where are the RSS Feeds?

I’ve got my RSS Bandit set up nicely now. It’s categorized by lots of things such as SEO, PPC, and such. It’s a terrific RSS reader and I highly recommend it. I’ve been using 4-5 other rss tools and this is my effort at consolidating them. It looks to be worth the effort, especially for the “unread” auto-grouping feature. I just have too many feeds that I review regularly. If anyone knows how to make RSS Bandit output feeds to a single feed, I’ll buy you a beer!

I set up a new set of feeds for the surrounding cities - as a part of staying in touch with the real world. Louisville, Lexington, Cincinatti, Nashville, and so on. I’m discovering that Lexington is relatively RSS-dark in comparison to the other towns.

Neither the Convention and Visitors’ Bureau or Commerce Lexington (Chamber of Commerce) deliver RSS feeds. The Lexington Center Corporation (Rupp Arena) doesn’t either. You cannot get LFUCG news via RSS, even though they have a really good news page that is well suited for it. The Lexington Legends site has no RSS feeds either (and is a usability failure if you ask me.) WUKY could sure use some here. Business Lexington still needs to do RSS over their site, too, especially on their breaking news page. The Fayette County Public School seems to have a feed, but it also seems to be broken (XSL style sheet is mucked.)

Ientry.com certainly have metric tons of feeds, but that’s not really local news. NOAA Weather service gives us one for Lexington weather warnings for . KET has a nice set of program feeds here. You can get University of Kentucky news using this feed, and there’s a great New York Times lookup for all things Wildcat. For example, the UK Alumni Association has RSS feeds for news and upcoming events. Pete Koutoulas maintains the Squidoo lens for UK Basketball.

Woodsongs’ schedule is published via RSS. Singletary Center Calendar surely has RSS!… Nope, but it sure is ‘perty. Someone spent a lot of time pixel-tweaking, but not much time usefulizing. Bluegrassreport.org sure has a feed (it’s a blog) and it’s a hot one.

I’m about to build a couple of really terrific sites based heavily on RSS aggregation and look forward to seeing the ins and outs of the medium. My own site already runs pretty heavily on RSS and it works nicely.

Now if you want to do a really good feed search, head over to the tool offered at Ask’s feed search. Within a few minutes I was able to hook up with some really terrific looking feeds such as the nice Lexington Flikr Photo Pool, and for movie buffs, there’s the Bluegrass Film Society.

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