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Newspapers To Offer Their Own News Aggregators

Posted by Zonk on from the rolling-your-own dept.

RedSteve writes "Wired News is reporting that several newspapers are about to take on news aggregators at their own game, offering their own branded newsreaders in direct competition with the likes of Google News. The Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post and British newspaper the Guardian will soon offer stand-alone newsreader software for reading stories on their own websites and those of their competitors. The move is apparently intended to capture the less tech-savvy news consumer who may not know what an RSS reader is, but know that their favorite paper now offers them a way to get lots of headlines from lots of places. Oh, and did I mention it allows the newspaper to maintain its brand and sell its own advertising based on what the user is viewing?"

9 of 108 comments (clear)

  1. Ummm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perhaps we could get one for slashdot, and I could get a first post

  2. One better! by jarich · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm going to write an aggregator-aggregator! I'll aggregate their aggregations!

    As long as no one I'm aggregating aggregates my aggregation of their their aggregations, we'll be fine. Otherwise we'll take the web down in a huge recursive aggregation fireball!

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    Agile Artisans
  3. New York Times version by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forces you to login to each aggregate site to read every headline.

    What happens when I have no blood or first born left? :(

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  4. Re:Anything driving RSS adoption is a good thing. by jvd · · Score: 2, Funny

    "IMO RSS is one of the best things to hit the net since porn" -- And in my opinion you're wrong mister!, NetCraft 0wNZ R55!

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    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  5. "google.com/search?filetype=RSS" beat you to it. by mrRay720 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh well, I guess you could always patent the idea and retroactively sue them.

  6. Re:They should just point them to Firefox by mrRay720 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've marked out an area in my sock draw for storing apple juice. I always know where to find my apple juice. That doesn't make my idea sane, though...

  7. Re:They should just point them to Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've marked out an area in my sock draw for storing apple juice. I always know where to find my apple juice. That doesn't make my idea sane, though...

    But god damn how practical! I tried this and now i always drinks some apple juice in the morning when i take my socks on!

    Life is great...
  8. Short Attention Span by shreevatsa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, and did I mention it allows the newspaper to maintain its brand and sell its own advertising based on what the user is viewing?
    Seriously, can't you just look at the three sentences that you've written before this one and see that you haven't? Why ask rhetorical questions?

  9. Re:Adblocking over RSS/newsreader by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure what your gripe with Gator ads is, I find it pretty non-intrusive for a free ad-paid product and service (and is there any change?).

    Anyways, what really rocks with Gator (sorry to say this about a Gator product here :) is saving passwords. Try it, this is good stuff!