Grokking the Aggregator...and Trying Replacements
I really like the News Aggregator built into Radio, which is what I use to create my Web log. But I don't understand something about it. Why is that I very often get duplicated feeds from the same site? I mean, there doesn't seem to be anything built into RSS feed technology that says, "Oh, don't send this subscriber that headline, because he's already seen it." I sometimes see the same story off some of these feeds six or eight or ten times a day. Seems inefficient on a number of levels.
Also, I don't see a way to tell the aggregator to kind of take a break and not update for a while or until I tell it. I can't get it to skip an hour or two here and there. That would be useful sometimes because here's what happens. I check the aggregator, uncheck the stories I want to pursue, start looking at them and then, at some point when I'm in the midst of that, an hour passes and a new batch of stuff appears, stuff I haven't yet seen. Now I have to filter once again. Maybe only a news junkie like me encounters this kind of stuff.
Anyway, I'm now playing with NetNewsWire Lite as a replacement for the Aggregator. It doesn't do the nifty automatic posting to my Weblog that Radio's tool does, but it seems to be a bit more manageable, less automagical.
3:18:42 PM 
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