RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal? 102
Rod Peterson writes, "I came across SiliconNews.net, a news portal that pulls RSS feeds from many of the top computer enthusiast, gaming, and nerd websites. Obviously, they've included Slashdot! They have an RSS feed of everyone else's RSS feeds, so you always have all the news."
Calm down, it didn't catch on until now (Score:2)
How many? (Score:2, Insightful)
Wayback Machine Re:How many? (Score:2)
2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405211544/www.dai
That looks like a lot to me.
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I note it is full of website names like: Codestyle, Ms. Geek, Robots Net, Geeknik, Geek Press, Hack In The Box, Hacker News, Slashdot, Segfault etc. They are perhaps expected to be early adopters? Still, it is a long list.
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Its very handy : )
-Red
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If you really want to see RSS feeds from too many web sites, just load it up and watch yourself be overloaded by the "River of Information". Or just be sane and pick the few you really want to read.
So you get dupes of dupes... (Score:2)
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Just what the world needs. (Score:4, Funny)
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Adding that
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I'm hopelessly addicted.
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Here's an example of how it can look:
http://911source.org/aggregator [911source.org]
Or you can browse by category:
http://911source.org/aggregator/categories [911source.org]
Re:One up! (Score:5, Funny)
It's news because, by posting a news article on it, kdawson has finally achieved his ultimate goal of causing the universe to implode upon itself in a news paradox.
Without news, there is no headline, without a headline, there can be no RSS feed, without the RSS feed, there can be no RSS Feed about RSS feeds and without a RSS feed about an RSS feed about RSS feeds, there can be no news. As soon as someone reads TFA, it's all over.
Don't you see? We're screwed. Kdawson has will finally win and spread chaos across the face of the entire universe. Thank God people never RTFA. I'm guessing we have another 350-ish comments to go before some moron destroys all of creation by trying to view the information firsthand and make an informed comment. Fools.
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My Google start page ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Thanks for comin' out.
FOTM (Score:5, Interesting)
I am sure there is a use for these, but this feels like the
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But as of yet your right, there isn't a need for google.com/ig (or someone else) to do all this for me. But I think most people really like that 'start/home page'. I wonder how many people still have http://www.apple.com/startpage [apple.com] or whatever the oem is for their homepage. If that number is big, then switching that page to google.com/ig (they might lack a
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There is some uses... (Score:2)
I use http://www.bloglines.com/ [bloglines.com], and have been for a while now. I pull in stuff from all sorts of differnt sources, into one page. Yep, same thing that you can do with Firefox.
But - I can access Bloglines anywhere, on any machine, and I have access to my already customized list of news feeds and the stuff that I've marked for further reading later, etc. For some reason I keep finding myself needing the ability to access my stuff from multiple machines, so it works great for me. Especially nice since m
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Keep your RSS feeds in Firefox and I guarantee that as the list of feeds grows you won't be able to remember which articles you have and have no read. A lot of the online readers are too damn slow and don't support all the features I want. That's why I use MonkeyChow [monkeychow.org]. Tons of features, keeps articles around as long as I want, and open source PHP.
Original Signal is better (Score:5, Interesting)
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If ever there was a slashvertisement (Score:2, Offtopic)
hmmm.... (Score:4, Informative)
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I got a sight exactly like that (Score:1)
Isn't that the point of syndication though.
...And there's one for the Swedes too (Ichigo.se) (Score:1)
It does the same thing as SiliconNews but along with feeds from Slashdot/OSNews/Digg/Del.icio.us and such there's quite a bunch of Swedish feeds. And it looks pretty too.
There is another website? (Score:4, Insightful)
The site seems to provide too much information in too small of a space. I choose to visit a website based on what I feel like seeing at the moment. While a clear effort is made to categorize articles and news, the site lacks direction and provides little to no new information. What you want is lost in the static. Many of the covered websites will have dupes and when big news happens, I can see that RSS feed being completely filled with the same news.
I think the point is being missed about the value of RSS and what has been accomplished. Websites of this type are no longer necessary because we get to choose our own sources, layout and priority for news. Google's home page service has more value than this RSS feed compilation website.
This feels like a shameless plug or a blatent ad.
A better use of RSS... (Score:2)
Re:A better use of RSS... (Score:4, Funny)
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Fixed.
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When more of these appear: (Score:2, Funny)
The next big Slashdot joke? (Score:2)
Imagine an RSS feed of those!
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information overload (Score:1)
If it was smart enough, it could be useful. (Score:2)
Not interested until somebody figures out a way to unduplicate articles, and where the article is some blog regurgitating some other source, track back to the original source and give you that.
Not useful (Score:1)
What makes it practically unusable is the fact that clicking on a headline doesn't actually take you to the story, it takes you to a siliconnews.net subpage that has the actual link. There are better solutions out there than this.
Google News (Score:1)
ZOMG RSS Aggregator! (Score:1)
It's like the future, except now.
startingly irrelevant! (Score:2)
Is there an AOL keyword for the website? Maybe a CompuServe one? Can I get this via my local ASCII dial-up BBS over 9600 baud? Shoot me if I am ever this desperate for a technology news source--this thing is like a stack of Hollywood tabloids for sale outside of a Hollywood studio. It is like a tech news website compiler posted to Slashdot. The only use is if you are paranoid that there may be SOMETHING out there that you did not read. How many article submitters have gotten their su
News agregator or spam site? (Score:1, Insightful)
Google wins (Score:1)
Add what you want and set it as your homepage, it's linked to your Google account so as long as you're logged in it works from anywhere. There's a very large list of widgets and RSS feeds to choose from, although I'm pretty sure you can add any RSS feed you want.
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Agregator, anyone? (Score:2)
Personally, I use Akregator, KDE's RSS reader, to pull in just the feeds I want anyway. (Yes, Slashdot is one of them.
Again, what's so interesting here? (And yes, I did glance at the site. I still don't get it.)
speaking of RSS feeds... (Score:2, Interesting)
...it's great that Slashdot has one, and it's great that you guys started using em dashes a lot (like in the subject of this very article), but — isn't a valid RDF/RSS or XML character entity [feedvalidator.org]. So it shows up literally as "—" in feed readers.
Use the numerical equivalent (—) instead, gracefully degrade it to "--", or simply include it as an unescaped multibyte character (yay UTF-8). But do something, it looks dumb.
Google Tabbed Homepage (Score:5, Interesting)
Now when I want to do what I call "the rounds" and check what's new in the world and on sites I'm interested in, I just look at the links from the various RSS feeds on one tab, middle click on ones I'm interested in, go to the next tab, and do the same. At the end, I have around 1-2 dozen tabs open and whole process only takes about 1-2 minutes and I have all the latest information on the topics I care about. This is what RSS feeds are about. Fast and intuitive access to the data you want, when you want it.
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Dangerous (Score:2, Funny)
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HackerMedia (Score:1, Informative)
Similar sites (Score:5, Informative)
Could be better (Score:1)
one of the million? (Score:1)
How is this better than tabs? (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, tabs might be better since you usually get article summaries on most sites, rather than just headlines. And in the end, you probably need a browser to read the stories anyway. AdBlock cleans the page up for you too.
Seriously, why is RSS better? For mobile phones? Do I want to read news on a tiny screen? Maybe if I commuted by public transport, but it's impossible where I live unfortunately.
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Then again, I never understood why people thought they wanted stuff emailed to them each day. Doesn't seem at all convenient to me.
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I did that too, about 4 years ago. Then it grew to opening up 30 tabs, and having to a) recall what the previous web-page state was and b) identify if anything changed in a mix of differing, sometimes slow-to-load layouts. It was in competition with my slashboxes, which were quite novel and useful
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Quite how anyone could care enough to need over 300 feeds is beyond me. I'm not having a go at you, I just don't understand. Even if each one only produced 1 headline per day, I wouldn't have time to check them all. For me, it'
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a/ wanting a lot of new, varied information
b/ not caring about skimming through a bunch of noise to pick out some signal.
A good aggregator makes the second point simpler, but the *varied* part of the former is interesting. It's not about "news" necessarily. I gave the Netflix new releases example, and I just now added the Project Gutenberg newly-available ebooks feed. Some from the forums for a couple of hobbies. A couple of my feeds are new software updates. Multiple
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RSS feeds do make sense, but not the way a lot of people use them.
I use them in two ways...I have them in Google, which is my start page, so a quick glance will tell me if anything interesting is happening. I don't actually even know if those are RSS, they're just the boxes Google provides. But I think I can put my own custom feeds in there, assuming I had one I wanted that Google didn't have.
Then I have an RSS reader, that I use, basically, like a Usenet reader. It collects articles on a bunch of differe
Really no comparison, or "Try it, you'll like it." (Score:2)
An RSS reader is better if you want to automate the checking of those sites you're interested in. You don't have to keep refreshing; the RSS aggregator does it for you and, depending on your client, can alert you if there is new content.
This saves you the trouble of loading a new set of tabs and finding no new content. RSS readers are very good with infrequently updated pages. RSS readers also keep you up to date on frequently updated pages because you will be notified of new content once your reader disc
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Whats so special (Score:3, Informative)
Little Site of Horrors (Score:1)
Have you seen Daily Rotation? (Score:2, Interesting)
The real purpose of aggregators -- people you know (Score:1)
I would much rather give my parents a single feed that encapsulates everything my wife & I do.
When I add a new source or remove an existing source, my parents (and a
erm... and? (Score:2)
popurls (Score:1)
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