Overwhelmed?

Beating Information Overload with News Aggregators: “Basically, a news aggregator is a software program that automatically retrieves news feeds from Web pages that supply those feeds. News feeds come in a number of standard formats and are relatively simple items of code that

1. can be retrieved and read by news aggregators, and
2. may contain headlines, summaries, excerpts, full text of articles, links and even images

That’s all you really need to know about the underlying technology to use it. What you want to know, instead, is how the technology can help you better do what you do every day. What, then, are the benefits of news aggregators and news feeds?…”

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