media
jul 1
2009

The Aggregation Bandwagon

I kinda dissed the New York Observer's new site design a while back, but something I've noticed lately is that the homepage currently serves up almost all external links. Even the top story, right now, is currently a link off site. It's the largest attempt to go full-on aggregation since Drudge (contra HuffPo, which is an ingestor, not an aggregator). None of these are in their RSS feed, but I'd subscribe to something that included only those links.
3 comments

Have you considered authoring a Yahoo Pipes stream to parse a feed with just the links you want?

posted by Jeff Milner at 2009-07-01 12:38:28

It's not in the RSS in the first place, so no. The only way to do it would be to write a scraper.<br /><br />

posted by Rex at 2009-07-01 23:21:30

Sounds cool. I thought it was still in the Beta format? <br /><br /> <br /><br /> Rafael<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.dvdcloner.com" target="_blank">Copy DVD Movies Software</a>

posted by DVD Clone Trial at 2009-07-10 05:47:46