Best of News Feeds

A News Aggregator or Newsreader reduces the time and effort needed to regularly check websites or blogs for updates, creating a unique information space or “personal newspaper.” Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes described as being “pulled” to the subscriber, as opposed to “pushed” with email or IM. What follows is a collection of some of my favourite stories that have come via my newsreader.