Some here may or may not be aware of the latest trend in electronic news feeds. I'm posting this hoping that someone might be able recommend a solid reader for PDA's. In the meantime, I'll share what I know abour RSS and readers.
The way I understand it, RSS is a handy method websites employ to codify news articles, blogs, etc for the easy transfer of text from the internet to a reader/UI (similar to something like Outlook Express) or to a PDA.
Here's the way it works: as a news site or blog is updated, such as Bagatellen, so is the RSS file for its content. That is, the text as you read it in HTML is also updated on another page, often an .xml page. You can see mine here:
http://www.bagatellen.com/index.xml It looks like garbage, and don't ask me how to program it (it is an option provided by the software I use for the site. Using an
RSS aggregator, one can assign immediate or periodic updates (with such a URL) for a slew of favorite blogs or news sites to be placed conveniently inside the UI, and then sorted by story, news source, author, date, etc. So rather than clicking around the WWW for story updates at favorite sites, everything is automatically catalogued and archived and contained in the aggregator.
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