War Coverage in Your Aggregator
Grok Headline matches for War Coverage in Your Aggregator
Aggregator inside aggregator
Aggregator inside aggregator
09/21/2004 10:57 PMYou know whenever people post screenshots of emulators, how it can be
weird to see Windows running on a Mac? (Even weirder if you actually
use an emulator, until you get used to it.)
Here’s a similar side effect of having embedded a browser in
NetNewsWire. (Click for full-size screen shots.)
Even though it’s odd, there’s actually a point to it—we
discovered that some people use multiple aggregators. One for fun
stuff and one for work, that kind of thing.
If one is browser-based and the other embeds a browser, then, well,
hey, you’ve got something like the above.
After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US?
After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US?
09/07/2004 11:47 PM
Xeni Jardin:
BBC Journalist and blogger Stuart Hughes says:
The Olympics were a huge success for NBC.200 million viewers. A "halo
effect" that boosted other channels and programmes. An estimated
$60-70 million profit (Source: Hollywood Reporter) Before the Games started,
NBC boast
ed of the depth and breadth of its coverage.1210 hours of
events.103 commentators. 28 Olympians on the commentary team. A week
from now, I'll be heading back to Athens for Greece's second
remarkable major sporting event of the year. The Paraly
mpics will boast:4000 athletes. 140 countries represented.525
gold medals at stake. 19 sports. There will be no American TV coverage of the
Paralympics. Let me repeat that. There will be NO AMERICAN TV
COVERAGE OF THE PARALYMPICS. Not one hour of live coverage.
Not one commentator. Not one Olympian on the commentary team. Nothing.
This at the same time that a record number of journalists are
preparing to cover the Paralympics.
Link to complete post on Stuart's weblog. See
also these related previous BoingBoing posts:
Stuart Hughes covers Olympics on his blog;
BBC journalist survives landmine; Xeni on NPR:
Tech helps
triple amputee to run again (
thanks, Karim)
New Aggregator
New Aggregator
01/09/2003 01:29 PMThe horribly-named Beaver is a "FeedReader replacement" that is in the
early stages of development and "very feature incomplete." Not...
Aggregator utf-16 tests
Aggregator utf-16 tests
06/03/2004 05:16 PMI've converted yesterday's utf-8 tests to utf-16 (technically
utf-16le,
complete with the approrpriate BOM). For those that want to play
along with RSS, there also are RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and RSS 2.0 + Atom
versions.
Bayesian Aggregator
Bayesian Aggregator
12/02/2003 08:47 AM In a comment, Kevin Jordan writes: 348North News is a normal
aggregator in much of the way you think of it. However, it allows me
to identify keywords or themes that it puts together into phrases
— and then matches up the phrases with like articles. Like a
cross between Google News and Daypop (but that makes it sound much
more complex than it is). If you want to see an "interests" based
summary for me, check out the Phrase Index. I use fairly general
keywords so as not to miss out on the future items. I haven't tried...
New RSS News Aggregator
New RSS News Aggregator
12/05/2003 03:14 AMChris Pirillo has released a
new RSS news aggregator done with Macromedia's Flash. I've tried
it and it looks different and works nice, that's for sure, but for now
I'm sticking with my NewsGator.
Yahoo Re-aggregator
Yahoo Re-aggregator
01/23/2004 01:23 AMAfter a false
start earlier this month, My Yahoo
now has an RSS aggregator.
When the module appeared on my Yahoo and I complained about it, I
was informed by Yahoo employees that it was a bug that caused the
pre-beta module to show up on some My Yahoo pages. It wasn’t an
intentional marketing effort, but the buzz created by the snafu
didn’t hurt Yahoo’s cause.
The module isn’t yet available on the standard list of My
Yahoo modules. To add it you’ll need to go to add.my.yahoo.com/rss.
NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator
NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator
07/03/2004 09:23 PM
Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?: Here's a post from a venture
capitalist about why he invested in NewsGator.
The misperception is that NewsGator is only an Outlook plug-in.
While the most popular product from NewsGator is currently their
Outlook-based aggregator, what really turned us on when we dug into
NewsGator as a potential investment is NewsGator Online Services
(NGOS).
Greg Reinacker's vision is much broader than simply an RSS
aggregator - his goal is to provide RSS content on any device.
NewsGator currently provides clients for Outlook, the Web, POP email,
mobile devices (web-based and wap), and Microsoft Media Center (how
cool is it to get an RSS feed on your TV?).
He makes a good point — NewsGator has really extended past
Outlook. They started with that, and the Outlook plug-in is what
they're most well-known for, but I just wrapped up 30 days with Newsgator Online Services
(NOS), and I can tell you that they've deftly transcended the
aggregator.
While working with NOS, I got the...feeling, that news and
information was just out there, everywhere, and it was up to me how I
wanted to receive it. They have options to push information to about
any device, on any platform. I've never felt more saturated by news
in my life than during those 30 days.
Information was everywhere — so much so that I stopped
thinking in terms of this aggreagtor or that protocol. I was just
swimming in information, and the method in which I chose to receive it
was almost incidental. Petty, even.
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Dean Aggregator
Dean Aggregator
01/23/2004 02:21 PM Mike Muegel, a Dean supporter, has put together a very cool little
tool that aggregates blogs related to the Dean campaign. It sits in
your system tray and pulls in entries from a whole bunch o' sites, and
lets you cycle through them one at a time. In my experience with it
over the past few weeks, it's been very well-behaved, updating itself
cleanly. Desktop Dean is free, of course. You could probably talk to
Mike about having him do a version for some other topic you or your
business cares about......
Yahoo Aggregator
Yahoo Aggregator
01/07/2004 06:17 PMYahoo is beta testing an RSS Aggregator that integrates into the
My Yahoo service, but their advertising of it has fallen flat.
Because I choose the contents of a My Yahoo page, I have a sense of
ownership of the page. Personalized pages tend to evoke that feeling.
So imagine my surprise when I open My Yahoo today and find that
there’s a new content module for RSS
added to the top of the page. I wasn’t sure whether to feel
excited or violated. It’s great that Yahoo is embracing RSS, but they messed with my page.
Nevertheless I tried testing it, but when trying to add feeds or
search for feeds, I received a message saying that I didn’t have
access. Curious to see if I’d get the same message if I tried
removing the module, I hit the remove button. Now it’s gone and
there doesn’t seem to be a way to add it back.
It might seem strange that I’m complaining that I can’t
get something back when I didn’t want it in the first place, but
it goes back to that sense of ownership. I know that content module
exists, but I can’t add it to my page.
Rippy the Aggregator 0.10
Rippy the Aggregator 0.10
09/26/2004 08:42 PMA lightweight RSS aggregator in PHP.
MP3Blogs Aggregator
MP3Blogs Aggregator
07/19/2004 10:11 PMMP3Blogs Aggregator .. Mp3blogs
mp3blogs.org
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Simple Aggregator 1.0
Simple Aggregator 1.0
07/11/2004 09:11 AMA Web-based news aggregator.
"MP3Blogs Aggregator"
"MP3Blogs Aggregator"
07/19/2004 08:24 PMAnother RSS Aggregator for Palms
Another RSS Aggregator for Palms
06/17/2004 12:27 AMmNe
ws
"mNews looks quite good but perhaps quite
high at $19.95- 'Sports, weather, politics, business, science, health,
technology... Latest world headlines were never so easy to access on
your Treo as they are now with mNews! With mNews you can download and
read latest news from numerous sources of your choice from around the
world right on your Treo. mNews is the RSS news reader for PalmOne
Treo 600 devices. RSS news feeds is an emerging channel for delivering
the news, blogs and corporate communication to the end users. All
major news and information providers support RSS format which mNews
can download and display.' " [PDA
24/7]
A competitor to Hand/RSS, but I
still think mobile
Bloglines is the way to go so that your feeds are synchronized
across multiple devices.
Reading Canter in an aggregator.....
Reading Canter in an aggregator.....
07/28/2004 11:08 AM 
... is like watching The Matrix on a Teletype machine/printer:
you not only miss the entire experience, but most of the headlines
picked up by the feed are uninteresting at quick glance, whereas the
stories themselves usually are pretty good. Sure, better summary
style might do the trick, as Jon Udell often writes
about, but that would miss the point, and the impact/speed with which
worthy items appear. I used to moan about the confusing (non-existing
or subtle) quoting convention, but now I've told him that I don't care
anymore... where would we be if Marc Canter gave up his
shoot-from-the-hip style, and increasingly-rich-media blog pages?
[My Dog]
Thanks Marc.
Marc Eisenstadt is one of my favorite people. And not just because
he bought me a headset and camera (which I haven't even used yet.)
I tty and keep my life as close to 'normal' people as possible - so
ONE DAY I'll pull out that camera and start using Marc's stuff - but
first......
MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator
MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator
03/17/2005 03:59 AMMSN quietly is experimenting with a Microsoft-developed RSS
aggregator.
Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator
Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator
04/29/2004 11:11 PMPC Mag Says
Death to 802.11b (Almost)
"PC Magazine rounds up several
802.11g routers, and says they're cheap enough, they're good enough:
802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough (or any) price differential
for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include WPA encryption support, PC Mag
says. So while you can still find 802.11b devices on the market, they
recommend new gear have 802.11g built in...." [Wi-Fi Networking
News]
Lesson: Make sure you buy 802.11g for your
library.
Making
CD-R's Last
"From Doug
Kaye I learned of an interesting
article on how long CD-R's will last and things you can do to
increase or decrease that time. I've always just popped down to
Staples and bought the cheapest disks I could find. For some of my
uses (the latest Suse distro, for example) that's fine. But this
article makes the point that if you're using the disk to archive
important material, you need to be more careful. The article contains
information on how to select good media and media that's appropriate
for the drive that you'll be recording on. This may be especially
important for organizations building large collections of CD-R's that
they need to keep to meet regulatory or other business requirements."
[Windley's Enterprise Computing
Weblog]
Lesson: If your library is using CD-Rs for
backups, archiving, or preservation, pick the right ones!
Browser or Aggregator? Some numbers.
Browser or Aggregator? Some numbers.
02/10/2003 12:58 AMI got to wondering about browsers vs. aggregators coming to my blog.
I'm going to assume that anyone who hits
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ is a browser and anyone who hits
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf is an aggregator. It's simple
and I have the data for...
Aggregator Market Share
Aggregator Market Share
03/23/2005 08:02 PMIn reply to one of my Browser Market Share postings,
Ian Brown wrote to point out that with
an increasing portion of the traffic going through newsreaders, it
might be interesting to do some breakdown on that. So I did.
[Updated with pointers & percentages.]...
ANT - video bl0gging aggregator
ANT - video bl0gging aggregator
02/05/2005 09:12 PM
ANT is a coolio video blogging
aggregator I saw previewed in NYC at Vloggercon a couple of weeks
ago.
It's now ready for folks to beat on.
Enjoy.
Video blogging is expanding the blogosphere as we speak. And
maybe - just MAYBE we can get some meta-data into these feeds!
This screen ghrab features Dylan Verdi - the world's youngest video
blogger.
I met Dylan and her dad - in the middle of a snowstorm.
Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator
Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator
12/24/2004 12:58 PM
- RSS: a
Shift, from What...to What?
"He also neatly sort of answers his own question - with greater
precision than I can ever muster - by saying: 'If I visit houses of
content, as I seem to do on the Web, that is very different than the
content as “visitor” to my house.'... What we’re seeing is the
creation of personalised information hypermarkets.... Over time, you
develop a rich cocktail of sources and you develop a new habit for
browsing information. Some things you look at hourly, some daily, and
some you deliberately save till Friday pm for a catch up. This is
light years away from sitting down at the table in the morning looking
at your paper, or even your paper’s website.”
- RSS and
Blog Directories
"Inspired by The Media Drop's list of newspaper RSS feeds, I thought
I'd compile a list of RSS directories. Enjoy and spread the
link."
- Newsmap as a Model for Smart Aggregation
"Information overload. It’s the next big issue in publishing, and
technology in general. The day you have 400 e-mails in your inbox, 900
new items in your RSS aggregator, and 8 Instant Messenger windows on
your screen will come. For some people, it’s already here.... The
key to our information gathering lives is all about smart aggregation.
The days of media companies deciding what’s on your 'front page' are
numbered. Within five years, I believe customizable newsreader
technology (whether client-side like Net News Wire, or server-side
like Bloglines), will be as prevalent as the web is right
now."
- 500 down, 3061 to go
"At the beginning of this week I had 310 feeds showing around 25,000
unread posts. I had toyed with the idea of declaring RSS bankruptcy
and just starting again, but I was getting increasingly unhappy with
chaotic state of my feeds and deep down I knew that hitting 'mark all
posts read' would do nothing to solve the problem in the long
run."
AvantGo is the Original Aggregator
AvantGo is the Original Aggregator
02/26/2003 02:37 PMAfter seeing this story today about the Anatomy of a mobile device
user, a survey conducted by AvantGo, I realized...
Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
05/24/2004 01:41 AMTV News in a
Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS
"Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes
are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling
that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in
their market with it....
RSxStream is a sophisticated and ingenious software engine
that takes RSS, Atom, RDF, XML, any other sort of feed or data stream,
or any other content that lives on the Internet and makes it available
to the desktop via a contextual reader. End users are given a
state-of-the-art reader — capable of grabbing anything from live
TV to music to video-on-demand to simple RSS text feeds. If it's
available via the Internet (today), it can be routed through the
RSxStream engine. The end users have complete control of what sources
they choose, as they would with any other RSS reader. The difference
is those choices are drawn indirectly, through the RSxStream
software....
What's crucial to understand with this is that whoever provides the
reader to the public also owns the engine, and THAT is the business
end of RSS. It means advertising can be crafted into the design of the
reader and delivered based on the choices, habits and interests of the
end user. It's contextual advertising nirvana. This type of business
currently does not exist, but it's ideal for local media outlets. Why?
Because we're in the information distribution business, and getting
the reader onto the public's desktops is the key to its success.
Moreover, if the local media entities don't do it, somebody else will,
and they will take all those ad dollars with them." [DONATA Communications, via JD on MX]
I love the idea of providing the reader and even pre-populating it
with feeds relevant to the intended audience, but I hate the
idea of some company monetizing it. I'd much rather get a grant and
have libraries provide this information-centric software. We're in the
"information distribution" business, too, except we're interested in
people getting information without strings attached.
Anticipating the Aggregator Shakes
Anticipating the Aggregator Shakes
03/11/2003 10:45 AMAargh! It no longer matters if I have high-speed internet access
this week at the Computers
in Libraries conference because the laptop isn't back from being
repaired anyway. Hopefully I can get the Stowaway keyboard working for
my Clie or else I'll have to resort to - gasp - paper for my
conference notes. How archaic.
So that means no blogging or news aggregator and minimal email
Tuesday through Friday. I'm actually going to have to speak about RSS
on Thursday without having seen any for three days!
I'm not sure what's more pathetic - me at a libraries &
technology conference without internet access, the fact that none of
the hotels around Dupont Circle offer high-speed internet access (let
alone WiFi), or the fact that the CIL conference is held at a hotel
that doesn't offer any type of high-speed access.
So if you see me at the conference and I'm twitching, it's just a
symptom of withdrawal.
BlogBridge aggregator hits 1.0
BlogBridge aggregator hits 1.0
04/12/2005 11:06 AMBlogBridge, the aggregator I've been using for a few months in beta,
has gone to 1.0. There are a few things to like about it, not least of
which is that it's a free, open source project done by someone I know
well and trust 100%, Pito Salas. Blogbridge is a client, but it stores
your info on a server so you can use it on multiple machines. It tries
to help you discover new weblogs by noting links in your feeds. You
can rate your feeds and this somehow magically gets fed into a
community rating system. (I'm not...
Aggregator i18n tests
Aggregator i18n tests
06/02/2004 06:44 PMHere is a simple set of tests for verifying that an aggregator
properly
handles various combinations of international characters and character
references. The desired result is that the title of every entry
should be displayed as
Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. This is not
meant to be comprehensive, in particular, it focuses only on one
encoding (utf-8, which is guaranteed to be supported by any conformant
XML parser), and doesn't do mode base64.
Book Review Aggregator
Book Review Aggregator
01/03/2005 07:33 PM
Metacritic Books.
Metacritic has been covering reviews for movies, music, and games for
years, but now has started aggregating books reviews, with about 150
books so far.
Dave's Convention aggregator
Dave's Convention aggregator
07/23/2004 03:09 PMDave Winer's built a Convention blog iste that aggregates blogs from
people attending the Convention (not just the credentialed ones).
Looks great. Thanks, Dave....
Humor Roundup from My Aggregator
Humor Roundup from My Aggregator
12/24/2004 12:58 PM
Blog aggregator and social software
Blog aggregator and social software
02/05/2005 09:53 PMPito talks about the way the blog aggregator he's building,
BlogBridge, has some tagging and social software capabilities.
(BlogBridge, even in its current state of development - alpha - has
become my regular aggregator. Disclosure: I'm on its board of
advisors.)...
Findory: Collaborative news aggregator
Findory: Collaborative news aggregator
01/19/2004 11:47 AMGreg Linden stumbled across "The Daily Me? No, the Daily Us," an old
Wired piece of mine that pointed to a disadvantage of personalized
news sites: they don't build communities the way paper newspapers do.
(Look, it was an interesting idea in 1995.) Here's an excerpt, chosen
because of its quaint reference to that other Iraqi war: The fact that
the document I'm looking at is the same for all who receive it has
other important effects. It establishes a baseline of expectations
about what we, as a community, are all supposed to know. If, at the
height of the...
Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator Beta
Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator Beta
01/23/2004 10:59 PMLaunched Friday, Yahoo's new RSS Headlines service gathers multiple
syndication feeds onto a user's custom My Yahoo page.
Microsoft Plans News Aggregator
Microsoft Plans News Aggregator
07/27/2004 09:14 AMAmazingly Shifted Round-up from My
Aggregator
Amazingly Shifted Round-up from My
Aggregator
03/14/2005 06:23 PMI couldn’t have planned this better if I’d tried,
but this theme leapt out in 3D from my aggregator yesterday.
Together, they don’t even need any commentary, although the easy
one would be to just restate yesterday’s tagline that you can go
on thinking these trends won’t affect libraries, but you’d
be burying your head in the sand.
In the order they were
posted:
Sendo X2 Packs
a Punch with Music and Light Weight
“The new X2 Music
Phone features stereo sound, MP3/AAC/AAC+ format support, plus
Bluetooth and USB to move your music. It will also feature a 1.3
megapixel camera with support for 1GB miniSD memory for storing your
music, photos, and video. Finally all of this content will be
brought to you by a rather large 2.2 inch 65k display. Oh, and
did we mention this whole package clocks in at a mere 95 grams?”
[Engadget]
MP3 Players Storm the World
“I hardly ever do
‘here's the news’ entries, but the Pew
Report released today stands almost without comment for anyone
following podcasting and related technologies. ‘We just got the
results of the survey we took between January 13 and February 9 and
for the first time asked a question to find out how many American
adults have iPods or MP3 players. The answer is 11% -- or more than 22
million of those who are age 18 and older. It’s safe to say that
there are several million more MP3 players owned in the teen world,
but we did not survey teens in this poll.’ ” [Free Range
Librarian]
Motorola E1060: The iTunes
Phones“So here it is, the mythical iTunes phone. The
Motorola E1060 will be the first Motorola handset to run the mobile
Java version of iTunes that will become the default media player for
future Motorola handsets.” [Gizmodo]
Sony Ericsson
Introducing Walkman Cellphones
“Remember how the other
day Sony
Ericsson said that 2005 is all about listening to music on
cellphones? Yeah, well they’re cashing in on the Sony part
of their parentage with a new line of Walkman-branded music playing
cellphones. They don’t have any prototypes or pics or anything
to show off, but they did announce today at the big 3GSM World
Congress (which is why there is so much damn cellphone news) that
they’re going to introduce the line in March. They say the
phones will have large amounts of memory, good headphones, the ability
to easily transfer songs over from a PC, and will work with
Sony’s Connect online music store.” [Engadget]
Thanks to Cellphones, TV Screens Get Smaller
“Three
original television series, including a spinoff of ‘24,’
are making their debut on Verizon's new high-speed cellular phone
network.” [New York
Times]
Portable Future
“We seem to be on
the verge of a big breakthrough in portable entertainment similar to
the emergence of so many MP3 players back in 1999-2000. This time, the
breakthrough isn't yet another device to lug around weighing down
pockets already overloaded with cell phones, digital cameras, iPods
and other cancer-inducing battery-powered leg warmers. Instead, we are
extended support for existing formats in the same old devices we've
grown accustomed to fill our pants…. The convergence that
succeeds will combine audio and video player with what we currently
recognize as a cell phone into one unified portable entertainment hub,
finally providing some justification for that $25-per-month unlimited
Internet access charge…. When Nokia announces improved support
for Real media formats, Windows Media and Flash in the same week, it's
time to take notice.” [Jake Ludington’s Digital
Lifestyle]
More Cell Phone Functionality
“Cell phones do
alot already. Companies are looking at adding even more
functionality:
- Internet radio
- Music
- Document
scanning
- Three-dimensional sound….
You can read
more about these ideas at CNE
T.com.” [Library
Technology in Texas]
Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist
Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist
02/10/2004 02:59 AMI've seen several comments lately about the trend away from the
browser and how RSS may contribute to this, it...
Yahoo Bench Tests RSS Aggregator
Yahoo Bench Tests RSS Aggregator
01/16/2004 11:04 AMCharlottetown weather for your RSS news
aggregator
Charlottetown weather for your RSS news
aggregator
12/30/2003 12:09 AMCool. I'm checking out a RSS feed for Charlottetown weather. It's from
RSSWeather.com....
MSN Fires up Start.com RSS Aggregator
Beta
MSN Fires up Start.com RSS Aggregator
Beta
03/14/2005 05:10 PMMSN beta tests rss aggregator. update: " and *splat* - they are gone"
Grok Description matches for War Coverage in Your Aggregator
GrokA matches for War Coverage in Your Aggregator
War Coverage in Your Aggregator
