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 Thursday, July 08, 2004

WSJ Mentions Newsreaders

Blogs Help You Cope With Data Overload -- If You Manage Them

"To help juggle all those blogs, I've started playing around with a relatively new phenomenon called a newsreader. Rather than forcing you to jump from one blog to another to keep up with new entries, newsreaders bring together the latest postings from your favorite blogs in a single place." [Wall Street Journal (free article)]

A throwaway article about RSS and aggregators that focuses entirely on blogs and doesn't once mention the fact that there are some big time news sites that offer feeds. Hmmm... I wonder why they would ignore such an important fact? Could it be because the WSJ has yet to embrace RSS and offer feeds of its own?....

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