Back when syndicated content was new I wrote some scraping programs to generate newsfeeds for sites that did not have them yet (see "Good Morning Silicon Valley Ate My Newsfeed"). Now just about every major site has some syndication capability and my efforts are no longer necessary.

If you are using

http://michaelthompson.org/news/goo-sports.xml

please change it to

http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=s&output=rss

If you are using

http://michaelthompson.org/news/gms.xml

please change it to

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/index.rdf

You can look here for more newsfeeds, too. Hope you find what you're searching for!