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RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rss-in-a-hall-of-mirrors dept.

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."

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  1. My Google start page ... by nead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... has better sources, a more appealing layout and no advertising.

    Thanks for comin' out.

  2. There is another website? by sporkme · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought that Slashdot was the only website on the interweb tubes.

    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.

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  3. News agregator or spam site? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not interesting. They get feeds from other sites, wrap ads around the "content" and that's it. Making money on someone else's content is a scam!

  4. How many? by hackwrench · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been using http://dailyrotation.com/ for quite a while now, and they've had lots of sites for quite a while as well. "Quite a while" in this case seems to be years. Does anyone else have any recollections?

  5. How is this better than tabs? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I don't get about RSS is that it doesn't seem to be any better than, say, just setting up the sites I want to get news from on a bookmark folder in Firefox and middle clicking to open them all in new tabs.

    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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  6. Re:Just what the world needs. by poolmeister · · Score: 2, Insightful

    DailyRotation is a good example of this, just set it up to display ALL feeds and you won't know where to start...
    I'm hopelessly addicted.

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