* Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-29-2005 15:20]: > Andrew Overholt wrote: > > >> > Also, does Fedora come with a "news aggregator" software or whatever it > >> > is to use RSS feeds? > >> > >> Yes: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. > >> > >> Also there is liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) in > >> fedora-extras. > > > > And hopefully pretty soon we'll have RSSOwl in FE: > > > > http://rssowl.org > > I get RSS feeds in Firefox. > What advantages would other RSS aggregators have over this? > > I find it very convenient that I get RSS within my default browser; > any other source would have to have considerable advantages. > It's really more a matter of preference and convenience. I also prefer obtaining RSS feeds from my browser. However, one thing aggregators do that Firefox doesn't (Thunderbird does) is show the description of the topic. Often times, I peruse through the description and I really don't need to read the full article. Here's an example. Notice Firefox will only show the title, whereas Thunderbird and aggregators will also show description. <item> <title>Discovery Commander Surprised at Shedding (AP)</title> - <link> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/space_shuttle </link> <guid isPermaLink="false">ap/20050729/space_shuttle</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:30:29 GMT</pubDate> - <description> AP - Discovery Commander Eileen Collins said from orbit Friday that she was surprised to learn a large piece of foam broke from the shuttle's external tank despite years of work to prevent such shedding in the wake of the Columbia tragedy. </description> </item>
