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[Alex Fraser]

Thanks, looks like I will have to plug in to another data stream. 
Sidhartha would be amused.



Robert E.Seastrom wrote:

>Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> writes:
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>>I saw  the term RSS aggregator at the NOAA site.  Could you elaborate
>>on the technology?
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>Might be worthy of a presentation and demo at the library if there's
>sufficient interest.
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>The 100k ft overview is that RSS is an XML-based way of exporting news
>headlines (or logfile snippets or events or whatever you like) from a
>web site or process, along with possibly a snippet of the story, the
>whole story itself, possibly small pictures or links.  Blogs (stuff
>like Livejournal) and news outlets provide RSS feeds (an XML file that
>is updated periodically that can be snagged off a web server via
>HTTP).
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>An RSS aggregator is a piece of software that you run on your desktop
>machine that goes off and grabs RSS feeds from a multitude of sources,
>and presents them in an easily browseable format, keeping track of
>what you've already read.
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>Recommended RSS aggregators for Windows: SharpReader (freeware),
>FeedDemon (cheapieware).
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>Recommended RSS aggregator for Mac:  NetNewsWire.
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>Joe-bob says check it out.
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