Related to Gillmor's piece (below): A Wired article on aggregators by Ryan Singel.
I'm subscribed to 200 feeds," said Luke Hutteman, who designed SharpReader. "Last year, I didn't even know what an aggregator was."Posted by johndan at August 18, 2003 07:35 PM | TrackBackThough newsreaders have been around almost as long as Usenet and the Internet, some prominent bloggers and programmers argue that better syndication standards and more sophisticated readers herald the next big leap for life on the Internet.
"I'm a voracious reader and I built the software because I couldn't stand the Web without it," said Brent Simmons, who says the sales of his Macintosh-based aggregator, NetNewsWire, is now in five figures. "The demand for aggregators is just going to tip over at some point and go wild."