Chuck Caplan

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December 29, 2004

Aggregate Your Favorite Web Logs and News Sources with Bloglines

Each day, like many people I know, I track several different websites ranging from friends, technology columnists and news sources. Originally, I had a list of bookmarks and every morning I would go through each site and see if any new information was posted. However, I recently found a site that allows me to aggregate all of this information into a single page, which greatly shortens the time needed to go through everything.

Bloglines is a free service that allows you to take XML feeds (typically RSS or RDF) from any website that offers them and track them all from a single page. For instance, the XML feed on this page (and many other blogs) is available from the link on the right side of the page that says "Syndicate this site (XML)". Bloglines is also smart enough to automatically use feeds from sources like LiveJournal, Blogger, and Yahoo! Groups based on user name or group name.

I can now track all of the syndicatable content I read from one source. I can also quickly see which sources have new content and which do not. Now, my original 10 minute morning process has been slashed to under 2 minutes. In addition, I can create clippings of all the articles I feel are interesting and want to save.

In case you are interested, here is a list of all the sites I currently frequent that are also syndicated:
Alex Albrecht - RDF
Justin Curtis - RDF
Sarah Lane - RDF
Chris Piers - RSS
Kevin Rose - RSS
Slashdot - RSS
Yahoo! News: Technology - RSS

Posted by Chuck at December 29, 2004 10:12 AM

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Posted by: Justin at December 29, 2004 01:06 PM

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