The new source of power
is not money
in the hands of a few,
but information
in the hands of many.
John Naisbitt
The new source of power
is not money
in the hands of a few,
but information
in the hands of many.
John Naisbitt
In Feb 2010, we retrieved 19,100 articles from 790 different sources.
We now store a total of 114,520 articles. (Details)

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While the news is fed automatically into Humanitarian News, I am continuously improving and expanding the site, and its feeds. Here are the latest updates and changes on Humanitarian News.
New functionality is marked with
Jan 18 2010:
I changed the search settings, so the most recent articles will appear first.
Jan 10 2010:
At the bottom of each article, you can now see how many times it was read.
- I now keep track of the number of articles we collect, and publish them in a monthly updated .pdf file.
- over 100 new blogs and websites have been added to the feeds.
Dec 26 2009:
Humanitarian News got a new layout and finally starts to resemble "a real webpage". As of now, I also highlight "featured articles" (in the grey boxes) and "site highlights" (in the red boxes).
Dec 18 2009:
I updated the feeds & subscriptions section with a description how to create Email alerts only for the latest posts of your interest.
Dec 14 2009:
I rationalized all URLs on this site:
aidnews is now: www.humanitariannews.org/aidnews with the RSS: /aidnews/feed
aidworker blogs: www.humanitariannews.org/aidworkerblogs with RSS: /aidworkerblogs/feed
nonprofitnews: www.humanitariannews.org/nonprofitnews with RSS: /nonprofitnews/feed
nonprofitblogs: www.humanitariannews.org/nonprofitblogs with RSS: /nonprofitblogs/feed
greennews: www.humanitariannews.org/greennews with RSS: /greennews/feed
the overall RSS feed is now www.humanitariannews.org/feed
all new posts now have the format "/date/title" instead of "/blog/date/title"
For consistency's sake, I retained all old URLs
Dec 6 2009:
About 50 new NonProfitBlogs were added in the past month. AidNews, AidBlogs, GreenNews sources were updated too.
Oct 28 2009:
I modified the search algorithm to show the most recent articles show first, rather than the articles which contain the keyword the most.
Oct 25 2009:
- Added a dozen new sources to NonProfitBlogs, and Green News.
- A problem caused the site to update only every few hours at peak times. Is now solved.
Oct 20 2009:
You can now generate your own RSS feed based on your search criteria! Check out the explanation on the "Subscriptions" page
Oct 12 2009:
Do you have a blog or website? I made some News widgets to display the latest updates of Humanitarian News on your site.
Oct 6 2009:
- Added a dozen more nonprofit blogs. A total of 345 nonprofit blog feeds are now imported into Humanitarian News.
- There was a problem with the URLs pointing to pages which had non-readable characters, generating "Page not found" errors. Is solved now.
Oct 2 2009:
September was the first full month Humanitarian News was active. In our first month, we fetched and stored 13,000 articles from +- 600 different nonprofit sources.
Sept 19 2009:
- In the past week, I added more sources for Green News (+20), Nonprofit Blogs (+50), Aidworkers (+4) and Aidnews (+3).
- I tuned the input fetcher for new articles. The site now gets updated every 30 15 minutes.
Sept 13 2009:
I added more sources for Green News. A total of 60 different feeds are now imported for the latest on the environment.
Sept 12 2009:
We now feature selective RSS feeds and Email subscriptions.
Sept 11 2009:
- The excessive '404 Page Not Found' errors should be solved now. Each time a feed was updated, a new URL was created and the old one was deleted. (ooops)
- All posts as of today should have correct URLs, errors might still occur when trying to access posts published before Sept 11 2009.