Another interesting looking RSS aggregator: Aggie. Aggie is a .NET application...it runs on Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. As well as handling RSS, Aggie can also read "strutured" HTML pages. Aggie is open source.
The Aggie page pointed to a State of Utah page about RSS. Its basically a tutorial on publishing RSS content. Looks like a nice resource.
On the client side of things, check out Syndic8. They offer a large number of RSS feeds, nicely categorized. Hmm..."computers" seem to be pretty popular.
It might take a while yet (6-12 months...maybe longer), but I can see a time where a variety of content is published using RSS. At the ESD, we have hundreds of people who need to keep up with the latest news in a wide variety of fields. These people are also really, really busy. One solution is RSS. Imagine being able to scan the latest journal articles in your field in a few moments, flagging the ones that you want to read. I'm lucky...my field is technology, so there are plenty of RSS sources that let me keep up to date. At this point the technology is there. There are plenty of RSS readers for every platform. Weblogging software and CMS software make it easy to generate RSS. Now all we need is quality content (like the PSESD weblogs)...
Posted by Karl
February 24, 2003 01:32 PM