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Personal RSS Aggregators

Via Scripting News, a great article from John Udell: Personal RSS Aggregators.

I've been running Radio UserLand for about four months now, and the built-in RSS aggregator has changed how I process information in a dramatic way. At first, my list of channels was biased towards "official" sources -- that is, the RSS channels published by newspapers, magazines, and web sites in the areas of interest to me. Increasingly, though, I now rely on other people who are active in these areas, and who are publishing weblogs to which I can subscribe by way of RSS.

Not so many, as yet, see that publishing an RSS channel, and subscribing to channels, closes the communication loop and creates a new interactive medium. "Aggregation will become part of our everyday information lives in the future," writes Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian. With the new breed of personal news aggregators, that future is now.

The article actually points to a few aggregators I didn't know about, such as Feedreader (which looks pretty good).

I've actually been working towards working on my own RSS aggregator. I've finally finished my XML parser (no, I didn't write it quite from scratch, I made use of the parser built into PHP with Apache) and serializer. As part of that I redid a bunch of my XML-RPC library, and had to update my weblog API to match So that's been some work over the past two days.

I actually want to get my XML-RPC library good enough that I can actually "release" it, and submit it to the list of implementations even (I'd be lucky number 7).

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