PubSub Unleashes a Bunch of Government-Related RSS Feeds

PubSub has started a section of their site that provides RSS feeds on what's being said about US government official. You can get started at http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/ .

The subscriptions are divided into several sections. Obviously you can get feeds for Bush and Cheney. But there are also feeds available for state-elected officials, congressional committees, Supreme Court judges, and cabinet members.

My main concern with feeds like this is that they might have a variety of content that's barely- relevant to your search. What if someone just mentions George Bush? From what I saw though, the feeds contain targeted, relevant information.

Unfortunately though there seems to be some problem with duplicate content. When I looked at Sandra Day O'Connor's feed, I found that the lead story was repeated three more times. As it was a fairly extensive story, it made the feed pretty big.

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