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News based on separate, specific list of RSS feeds, combined to appear as “one” hourly, daily newspaper. A place to go for recent Bicycle news. Something I could use. A top 5 snippets on the sidebar.
Mashing Up Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes
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News from many feeds filtered based on certain keywords to sort or generate a new feed. A list of keywords shift certain stories to the top. For example, to get the release notifications, defects, betas, changes, etc.
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Making a post, like an essay, stick around longer. Some content is just commentary or transient, “look my new MacBook Pro came in” But a few articles are longer and well thought out.