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I’m starting to understand the

Feb 28, 2002 Tech
I’m starting to understand the news aggregator concept. It is the flipside of the
blog. It addresses my earliest question about blogs: won’t everything I write
just disappear into the void?
For non-geeks reading this, a news aggregator is a single program or web page
that gathers together a generalized version of “headlines.” These can certainly
include headlines, like from the BBC or AP wire. But they can also include
postings or articles from any site that is “syndicated,” in a certain technical
way, like this one is. You could ask your aggregator to pull in content from
this very site, each time I update it. See how it provides the audience with
the corresponding tool to the author’s tool of the blog? By the way, this very
product, Radio, includes a news aggregator and so marries the two tools.

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Greg Langmead
Machine Learning Engineer
I am a software engineer and mathematician. I work on NLP algorithms for Apple
News, and research homotopy type theory in CMU’s philosophy department.
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