Just to note another milestone, networks.org surpassed over 20 million pages/articles/lookups served since January 1, 2001 over the last week or so. Still a modest count, we last noted over 10 million served a little over a year ago in May of 2006. We are glad to continue serving the community at large, as well as the organizations that appreciate and rely on the services we offer.

In addition to the existing functionality and interactivity of the UN-Cast News feeds and site, now there will be a static version of the latest news feed as well. Since some browsers or RSS programs may not be smart enough to assist users in the dynamic or automatic recognition of RSS/XML/RDF feeds unless they have a '.rss' extention, this should maybe help some people out.

Still the same great live news headlines available on the website and that the rsstext.cgi provides, just no interactivity of choosing specific content or number of headlines. So, like the rsstext.cgi live/dynamic version, the static version of the default live breaking news feed is now available at http://networks.org/news/breakingnews.rss

More static versions of various content/subject-specific feeds are also likely to be made available. As usual, for information and updates for the UN-Cast news feeds, visit http://networks.org/?feed=news-cast

As we continue to expand sources for the United Networks News Cast feeds, we have recently consolidated certain groupings of sources (dubbed meta-sources). The two newest available source designations are technews: and secadvisories: when requesting a keyword or source (?src=WORD) with any of the available news feed formats (see http://networks.org/?feed=news-cast) or news search functions at networks.org.

technews: will narrow headlines down to provide technology related news from several of the technology specific news sources and headlines available within the feed.

secadvisories: will narrow headlines down to security advisory related sources and headlines, such as BugTraq and CERT.

Although a modest count, networks.org nears over 10 million pages and articles served since January, 1, 2001. We want to thank all the users and organizations for their continued support and use of the various United Networks services over the years, since before 1995. We hope to continue bringing you live content and content that is of interest to Internet users and organizations for many more years to come.

We'll be using this space, and this blog (thanks to blogger.com) to publish topics, current events, and news pertaining to United Networks but not limited to just the group. We hope to also provide useful information and items regarding various other topics for our users. If you have a comment or would like to publish something through this medium, please either send feedback or via one of the 'comments' links available via this blog. We want to hear from you!