"News Aggregation
 Why it matters

One of my favorite Radio features is its news feed aggregator. Radio goes from your desktop to web sites around the world, checking for and picking up headlines and articles from newspapers, weblogs, and other web sites. Some services, like NewsIsFree and the fee-based NewsKnowledge.com and YellowBrix run directories of feeds.

A software standard, RSS, makes it easy to do. Each source is represented by a file listing the latest headlines and a description of each story. That file has a URL, you tell Radio about it (copy url and paste), Radio checks it and, as the source updates, shows the new stories on a local News page....

Your own custom news portal.

Browsable news, pushed to you in a local database, without cluttering your mailbox.

Better than bookmarks, it is a memory tool for me, with active follow-up.

Addictive...." [a klog apart]

Lots of great ideas for aggregator enhancements. It shouldn't be too much longer before we hit a new level of usefulness.