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- RSS Aggregators
This is possibly the most amazing networking technology to come along in many years. Information that is updated regularly (news, blogs, media uploads, announcements, etc.) can be set up to co-generate RSS feeds, which are files that describe the information as it is updated. Your RSS aggregator can subscribe to these feeds so that you can be informed when your favorite bloggers have added a new article, news about education has been published, new bookmarks on a given topic have been stored, or new media tagged with a topic of professional interest has been uploaded. Example RSS Readers include:- Bloglines
- Google Reader
- Netvibes
- Pageflakes
- Probably your current web browser
The following web links come from my bookmarks, and are related to blogging and blogging as an educational tool.
- yourminis :: web widgets, blog widgets, desktop widgets, widgetize your content!
Give yourminis a whirl without signing up by adding a tab and dragging content from the left add content bar onto your page. You can create news pages, fan pages, promotional pages, art pieces, school projects, design mockups, or anything else you can dr
- A Directory of RSS Aggregators
A comparative directory of news feed aggregators
- RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory :: hebig.org/blog
A directory of news feed aggregators.
- News Aggregators
These are sites that aggregate feeds for reading in a browser.
- Bloglines
Create a personal Bloglines page loaded with the freshest news about the things you love. Also a blog search engine
- Google Aggregator
This is a pretty impressive aggregator written with AJax. The only proble is that it does not count up unread blogs and podcasts