Thanks for the praise! I’ll tell my coworker who does them on the weekdays. He’ll appreciate the kind words.

Yepper, that’s us. Besides the coworker who does them on the weekdays, three or four of us rotate weekend shifts. When I say I’m working on a weekend, that’s almost always what I’m doing, unless there’s something really, really major happening.

We aren’t technologically sophisticated enough yet to use feeds to do them–and I don’t think feeds are sophisticated enough for us to use them in that capacity, either.

LexisNexis and Factiva are where we do the initial searches, which usually retrieve about 100 articles each with some overlap, then we narrow down what we include in HITN to pieces of major importance or wide-spread interest that are available on the Web. We target a few specific publications, too, and have a long list of topics to include and not include, as you might imagine. Sometimes I do Web searches, too.

On an average day, it takes me a little longer than two hours to do clips. Most of the time is spent scouring the Web for links.

HITN is nice… We’ve been enjoying it at Rowland for some years. I didn’t realize you guys did that? From RSS feeds? Or web searches? (And yes, I was wondering who does it on Saturday and Sunday…) Great stuff.