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RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal?
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."
This sounds like just what the world needs: an easier way to become so indunated with news that you never have time for anything else.
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... has better sources, a more appealing layout and no advertising.
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This is the flavor of the moment, there are a bunch of there floating around. RSS aggregators are all the rage now. I don't see why someone would want a slow site to maintain them when you can just create a folder of LiveBookmarks in Firefox and get all the aggregation you need. For more dedicated aggregation there is Thunderbird and lots of native clients with lots of features.
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I am sure there is a use for these, but this feels like the
Have a look at OriginalSignal same system but Ajaxified as you can just hover over a story to read a summary.
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This is just like popurls.com, only not as good.
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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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When more of these type of programs are available, Slashdot will list them all, and will become an RSS Feed Feed Feed.
That's... the worst acronym I've ever read.
How is this news?
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.
...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. 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.
I love the new tabbed personalized homepage feature Google has added. Now, when I go to Google (which is about 12,324 times a day) I get a quick snap shot of the information I commonly go to from RSS feeds I choose. They also have lots of nice little tools/games you can drag onto your homepage as well.
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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You just created an infinite loop between the Slashdot front page and theirs. RUN!
You must have meant Rarely Seen Sites since Rarely Seen Websites is RSW not RSS
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There are plenty of other sites just like this. There's popurls, which lists feeds from user-contributed sites like Slashdot along with more formalized sites like Google and Yahoo News. There's Diggdot.us, for Digg, Slashdot, and del.icio.us. There is Xtreme News, which includes Fark and the BBC. And then there is DiggLicious, which has live views of updates from a couple of obvious sites.
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?
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That looks like a lot to me.
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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I fail to see whats so special about the site? Have a look at http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators
The Daily Rotation is a headline site. It can also be customized.