#newsriver

"The reason why it's such a good fit is that Twitter is a river, I saw that immediately. It's what I've been preaching. They got a lot of people to think in terms of River of News. So of course I'm going to jump on that bandwagon. I'll take victory howeve

"Try this one out. Imagine you're fishing, and there was some nerd on the other side of the river, shouting at you, the number of fish that went by that you didn't catch. How long before you'd want to kill the nerd??"

"you might say that we are, in fact, designed to scan by millenia of avoiding being eaten by things with sharp teeth."

"A few ideas as they occur about the developing art of reading lists."

"The goal is to create an XML-RPC interface for aggregators, with a first implementation for the NewsRiver aggregator that's an add-on for the OPML Editor."

"It took a fair amount of wrangling to strip extraneous markup and nest the stories in appropriately classed divs and spans."

"Dave mentioned that someone asked for an AJAX interface to river of news. "