Saturday, May 25, 2002

RSS aggregators

Personal RSS aggregators. A few years ago there were only a handful of RSS aggregators. They were centralized services: Netscape, UserLand, Meerkat. Now aggregators are many and decentralized. We haven't yet seen the full effect of this, I'm sure. ... [Jon's Radio]

Someone asked about RSS aggregators in class on Tuesday night. Here's a good list of currently available alternatives. Radio's aggregator certainly has changed my use of the web as a research and awareness tool. It's also beginning to change my writing habits as I now have to think about how a posting here will appear not only on my weblog but flowing into someone's aggregator feeds.

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