Developing OTFA

This week sees the launch of http://localnews.forargyll.com, another incremental step in the project’s ongoing collation of news stories and blog entries around and about Argyll.

This blog is entirely automated and collects stories from all the Argyll blogs to combine them in a 20 entry RSS feed for the OFTA front page which is refreshed every day – an daily snapshot of life in the region.

This isn’t entirely a Black Hat SEO operation either, because it has always been our mission to ensure we cover all the news from all over the region as much as we can. The other advantage is that it is starting to get us noticed in local blogging circles, which is to the good, because we’re inviting all-comers to board the OFTA blogging train and create a user-generated newsforce for good!