[CLUE-Talk] news

[Randy Arabie]

On Friday, 11 April 2003 at 22:28:04 -0600, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> Dunno whether I mentioned it back then or not, but I've found that using
> an RSS aggregator works very well. There are lots of them, but I'm liking
> Amphetadesk.
> 
>   http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/

I'm looking at that now.  Cool, so far.  I had a little trouble getting
it installed.  The install docs and readme failed to mention a few perl
modules that were required.

> Google news has RSS feeds. So does the Christian Science Monitor, BBC,
> Slashdot, LWN, Politechbot (via newsisfree, I think), etc., and you can
> get AP and UPI feeds too.

Care of offer up the URL for the google rss feeds.  I can't find any
mention of it on the google website.

> There's also newsisfree.com -- they have RSS feeds, or you can create an
> account and build your own custom news page.
> 
> The thing about using an aggregator is you use what you like. Google news
> is cool, but I can do without the sports and entertainment. But I take
> their U.S. news RSS feed.

What?  You don't subscribe to the Entertainment Tonight feed?  You
should be ashamed.
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Randy
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