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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. FOTM by achacha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    I am sure there is a use for these, but this feels like the .com boom time, money put into ideas with questionable innovations and no viable way to profit. These companies then patent all the prior art around and horribly retard the innovation process of the space. Oh well, it's bound to happen, the clueless always feel their idea is new and unique and patentable.

  3. Re:One up! by BadMrMojo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Similar sites by hpcanswers · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.