FeedBagel now hunts down new publishers on its own. When news breaks, Bagel searches the web for other sites covering the same story, taste-tests their RSS feeds, and rolls the good ones into the rotation. Fresh out the oven.
For the humans at the counter: no more seeing the same headline in six tabs like day-old bialys under a heat lamp. You get one toasty story page with also reported by The Hill, NBC, Hollywood Reporter… and a FeedBagel takeaway schmeared across the top.
A story waddles in
- A publisher pulls an article out of their oven and plonks it on the RSS counter, still steaming.
- FeedBagel keeps a sesame-seed eye on the counter. Busy bakeries get checked constantly, sleepy ones less. New bagel on the rack, we grab it.
- The bagel gets the spa treatment: read, scored, tagged (news, opinion, tutorial, press release), egg-washed, and lined up to be paired with other bagels from the same dough.
Same story, different ovens
When ten bakeries bake the same flavour at once, Bagel sweeps them onto one tray. You get a single story page with an also reported by roll-call, instead of ten near-identical bagels elbowing each other off your plate. Ten outlets, one Oscars story. A baker's dozen of truth.
The schmear on top
Once enough bakeries circle a story, Bagel cracks open a tub and schmears a short summary across the top: plain-spoken, free of any one bakery's house spin. Think Perplexity, but everything underneath is real reporting from real publishers with real flour on their aprons. New outlet weighs in, schmear gets re-spread.
Sniffing out new bakeries
That all works for bakeries we already follow. The new bit, just wheeled out the back: active discovery. Bagel goes door-knocking.
- For each high-rated news bagel, FeedBagel bellows down Main Street: who else is baking this?
- A search engine (Brave) hollers back with roughly ten other bakeries on the case.
- Every bakery we've never sniffed before goes on a flour- dusted candidate list.
- Each candidate gets a taste-test: a feed-finder confirms they actually publish RSS, the feeds aren't stale, and the place is an actual bakery (not a hat shop).
- The ones that pass roll into the morning rotation. From then on, every bagel they bake comes straight in, and their stories become tomorrow's door-knocks.
Every breaking story doubles as a recruiting drive. Picture Bagel on the cobblestones at 4am, cap low, clipboard tucked under one paw.
Opening day numbers
Among the new bakeries who passed the taste-test: Motorsport.com (29 feeds), Boston.com (24), TheHill (19), Hollywood Reporter (13), Insurance Journal, Fast Company, Black Enterprise, PetaPixel and The Walrus. Quite the spread.
Why this is delicious
- For readers. Fewer stale headlines, better summaries, more bakeries represented on every plate.
- For us. The bakery network rises like a good sourdough. Every story we cover well sniffs out roughly five new bakeries we should be watching. Over months, the rotation gets thicker and chewier, and nobody had to knead it by hand.
- For unique content. With a tidy stack of what every bakery is saying about a story, we can roll out FeedBagel originals: little homemade takes that sit on the counter next to the aggregated coverage.
FeedBagel reads public RSS feeds, groups all the bakeries baking the same story onto one tray, slathers a schmear of summary on top, and uses every story as a clue to find more bakeries worth visiting. The bakery grows its own bakery.