News Sources and Curation Guide

Overview

This document describes the news sources used for the Friday Roundup series and other news-integrated content. It provides guidance on curating relevant news and incorporating it into content.

News Source Categories

AI Development

Primary sources for AI industry news, model releases, and development tools.

Secondary AI Sources

Agriculture Technology

Sources covering precision agriculture, AgTech innovation, and farming technology.

Secondary Agriculture Sources

Developer Tools

Sources for software development, open source, and developer productivity news.

Secondary Developer Sources

Python Ecosystem

Sources for Python language development, package ecosystem, and data science tooling.

Secondary Python Sources

Curation Workflow

Daily Monitoring (5-10 minutes)

MORNING ROUTINE
┌──────────────────┐
│  Scan RSS Feed   │
│  (Feedly/etc)    │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│  Star/Save       │
│  Promising Items │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│  Quick Triage    │
│  (Keep/Skip)     │
└──────────────────┘

Thursday Curation (30-45 minutes)

THURSDAY AFTERNOON
┌──────────────────┐
│  Review Saved    │
│  Items (Week)    │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│  Select Top 5-6  │
│  by Category     │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│  Write Summaries │
│  (1-2 sentences) │
└────────┬─────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌──────────────────┐
│  Draft Friday    │
│  Roundup Post    │
└──────────────────┘

Selection Criteria

Must Include

• Relevance to audience (developers, agriculture tech)
• Recency (within past 7 days, preferably 3)
• Actionability (reader can do something with this)
• Credibility (reputable source)

Nice to Have

• Unique perspective or insight
• Connection to ongoing projects
• Community discussion value
• Visual appeal (for social sharing)

Avoid

• Paywalled content (without summary)
• Announcement-only news (no substance)
• Controversial/political topics
• Competitor drama
• Unverified claims

Content Quality Scoring

Rate each potential item 1-5 on:

Include items scoring 3.5+ overall.

Friday Roundup Format

Structure

🗞️ Friday Roundup - Week [number]

🤖 AI Development:
- [Headline 1]: [1-2 sentence summary] [link]
- [Headline 2]: [1-2 sentence summary] [link]

🌾 Agriculture Tech:
- [Headline]: [1-2 sentence summary] [link]

🛠️ Developer Tools:
- [Headline]: [1-2 sentence summary] [link]

What caught your attention this week?

Category Guidelines

Writing Summaries

Do:

• Lead with the “so what”
• Include specific numbers/facts
• Make it self-contained
• Use active voice

Don’t:

• Just repeat the headline
• Use vague language
• Editorialize excessively
• Include jargon without context

Examples

Good:

Claude 3.5 Haiku now available with 200K context window - 60% cost reduction
makes it practical for production RAG pipelines. [link]

Bad:

New Claude model released. [link]

Good:

GitHub Actions adds M4 Mac runners - native ARM testing for iOS developers
without self-hosted infrastructure. [link]

Bad:

GitHub announced new runners today. [link]

News Integration in Blog Posts

When to Include News

Posts with news_integration: true should include current events:

• Industry analysis posts
• State-of-the-art reviews
• Trend commentary
• Tool comparisons

How to Integrate

1. Opening Hook
   • Reference recent development
   • Connect to post topic
2. Supporting Evidence
   • Cite recent announcements
   • Link to primary sources
3. Future Implications
   • What does news mean for the topic?
   • How does it change the landscape?

Example Integration

## The Changing Landscape of AI Coding Assistants

Just last week, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5's expanded context window,
bringing 200K tokens to their fastest model. This follows GitHub Copilot's
recent addition of multi-file context in VS Code.

These developments signal a fundamental shift: AI coding assistants are
moving from "smart autocomplete" to genuine development partners.

[Continue with analysis...]

RSS Feed Management

Recommended RSS Reader

• Feedly (recommended) - AI-powered curation
• Inoreader - Power user features
• NewsBlur - Open source option
• Feedbin - Clean, simple

Feed Organization

📁 AI Development
  ├── Anthropic
  ├── OpenAI
  ├── HuggingFace
  ├── LangChain
  └── AI Newsletters

📁 Agriculture Tech
  ├── AgFunder
  ├── Precision Ag
  └── Industry News

📁 Developer Tools
  ├── GitHub
  ├── Dev.to
  └── Hacker News

📁 Low Priority
  ├── PHP
  └── Misc Tech

Feed Discovery

Find RSS feeds for sites that don’t advertise them:

# Common feed patterns
/feed
/rss
/feed.xml
/atom.xml
/blog/rss
/blog/feed

# Use RSS discovery tools
# - Feed Creator (browser extension)
# - RSSHub (self-hosted)
# - Kill the Newsletter (email to RSS)

Automation Opportunities

RSS to Slack/Discord

# Example Zapier/n8n workflow
trigger:
  type: rss
  feed: https://www.anthropic.com/news/rss.xml

action:
  type: slack
  channel: #content-ideas
  message: |
    New from Anthropic: 
    

Weekly Digest Email

# Send yourself a weekly summary
schedule: every sunday 9am
sources:
  - saved_items_from_feedly
action:
  email:
    subject: "Content Ideas for Week "
    body: ""

Social Listening

Monitor mentions and discussions:

• Mention - Brand monitoring
• Talkwalker - Social listening
• Google Alerts - Topic monitoring
• Reddit Search - Community discussions

Seasonal Considerations

AI Development

Agriculture Tech

Developer Tools

Quality Assurance

Before Publishing Friday Roundup

• All links tested and working
• No paywalled content without summary
• Dates verified (within 7 days)
• Category balance maintained
• Summaries are self-contained
• Call to action included
• Platform-appropriate formatting

Post-Publication Review

Weekly review (Monday):

• Check engagement metrics
• Note which topics resonated
• Adjust future curation accordingly
• Update source quality ratings