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Category
Format
Use
News
Real-time, daily
Breaking news, announcements
Blogs
Company, analyst
Deep dives, product updates
Newsletters
Curated, weekly/daily
Trends, summaries; low effort
Events
Conferences, webinars
Industry pulse, networking
Data
Layoffs, market cap, funding
Quantitative signals
Community
Forums, Q&A
Real questions, pain points
Archives
Wayback, Internet Archive
Historical content, competitor changes
Selection criteria: Authority, freshness, coverage, language/locale. Prefer 10–15 high-quality sources over 50+ low-signal ones.
Example Sources (Generic)
Category
Examples
News
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review
Blogs
Google AI Blog, OpenAI Blog, company blogs
Newsletters
TLDR AI, Ben's Bites, The Batch (DeepLearning.AI)
Data
Layoffs.fyi, Crunchbase, Companies Market Cap
Archives
Internet Archive, Wayback Machine
Community
Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow; regional (e.g. Qiita for Japan)
Note: Add locale-specific sources via localization-strategy; avoid long URL lists.
By Use Case
Use case
Source types
Content ideation
News, blogs, newsletters, community (Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow)
Competitor monitoring
Competitor blogs, review sites, social, funding databases
Industry tracking
News, newsletters, events, layoff/funding data
Avoid: Long URL lists that go stale. Use category framework + a few examples; update periodically.
Integration with Skills
Skill
How research sources feed in
keyword-research
Newsletters, community for long-tail and question keywords
competitor-research
Competitor blogs, review platforms, funding data
content-marketing
News, blogs for topic ideas; events for timely content
content-strategy
Industry trends for pillar/cluster planning
Output Format
- Use case (ideation, competitor, industry)
- Category selection (news, blogs, newsletters, etc.)
- Source shortlist (5–15; name + purpose)
- Cadence (daily scan, weekly digest, event calendar)
Related Skills
- keyword-research: Keyword discovery; research sources inform topics
- competitor-research: Competitor analysis; sources for monitoring
- content-marketing: Content planning; sources for ideation
- content-strategy: Topic clusters; industry signals for pillars