RS3 - The RSS Aggregator Killer?
Submitted by alan8373 on Thu, 11/11/2004 - 17:58.
I've been trying to get the word out (specifically to Adam Curry) about a project I've created on SourceForge (link here), called RS3, that takes a set of RSS feeds, crawls and scrapes the _original_ article linked to in each feed item, summarizes that page, and then optionally converts that text summary to speech and a playlist. A set of ogg files is created from this which is wrapped up in an M3U playlist which can be copied to your favorite media player. So, in essence, you can have your RSS feeds actually read aloud to you through a podcast on any media player or PC.
Right now I have this working for CNN, slashdot, groklaw, the weather channel's 10-day forecast for my zip code (easily changed to any zip code), linux today, newsforge, chris pirillo's blog, linux journal, the register, e-week, and larry lessig's blog. (I'm working on your blog Doc but I'm having trouble with the bookmarks that your RSS feed points to.)
I have this script setup for myself to run every morning where I get a nicely summarized HTML page of all new articles in my RSS feeds which are conveniently gathered onto a single page. Furthermore, I can optionally listen to the set of ogg files that will speak the text of those summaries for me. I'm working on getting an mp3/ogg hardware player so I can listen to them on my car's stereo through an FM transmitter. Check out this link for a sample page that has spoken ogg files of some article summaries. It's pretty cool. Also, if you're interested in helping out, download the current tar.gz file and lend a hand. If this takes off like I'd love it to, this might be the RSS aggregator killer!
London
When they gonna stop blow everything?
London
When they gonna stop blow everything?
London
Police have carried out a controlled explosion on a vehicle at the hospital treating a suspect in the attack on Scotland's busiest airport. Officers also made a fifth arrest in the airport attack and a foiled car bomb plot in London.
WTF
These comments are like rubbish
Sometimes
Sometimes I can't understand...
Bullshit
Sorry but you are discussing bullshit
But other said
But other said that the judgement induces common sense, tertium non datur
But other said
But other said that the judgement induces common sense, tertium non datur
As one clever
As one clever person said the judgement transforms tragical hedonism.
Interesting
Interesting opinion. But IMHO it's just an opinion.
My experience
I have great experience in that. So I can understand...
Anyway
Anyway I think that the author is right.
Linguistic
The autor has very good linguistic skills
Re: You seem confused
Yeah, I also noticed that
No comments
Are you sure? You must be joking. I can't believe in that
Sorry again
Sorry. Post that you have deleted was mine.
I love the way you write
I love the way you write. It's no wonder you have so many people reading your blog.
Re: De-ja-vu
U must be reading my mind! :) I also saw somewhere this text.
No
I'm not agree with you. Sorry.
needs more detail
The general idea and concept is their but who is to say that 5 years down the road Linux won't find a fatal flaw in the system?
I believe you have the right idea but need to work with others to get it towards perfection.
Damn what great Idea
The easy solution is download to your portable media player, but this is really usefull. Most news sites only need checking once or twice a day, I personally could download to my laptop late afternoon, and listen to the news on the drive home. Check again first thing in the morning and listen on the drive to work.
My only real thought is to keep in generic enough, where OS X users and others can just go.
I thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Thanks for the compliment
I agree --- we need a version of this for Windows, and MacOS/X. I've put up a bunch of wish list things I would like to work on and have others join in on and GUI's are up on the list. KDE/Gnome integration would be wonderful - like a taskbar applet or something.
I just bought a Neuros 30Gb/128Mb Bundle mp3/ogg/wma player and can't wait to start programming it to do RS3 feeds automatically so I can listen to them on my way to/from work. I hear it works great with Linux!
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wrong direction
CORRECTION: wow! I couldn't be more wrong! I did not see what RS3 does exactly in the first place... *This* is a great idea!
Original post:
IMHO, this is not the right direction to go for the next-generation rss aggregators. A blog or a news site is more than the text itself (or should be). It's about the experience you get, the way content is organized, linked connected to external sources. It's (or should be) about interactivity (comments, trackbacks, polls, moderation, etc.).
So (usually) ripping off the content creates a poorer experience and gives the reader less information.
I think that rss aggregators should offer additional functionality on top of what the original sites offer. Audio playlists (that RS3 offer) is one such feature. Group by topic, display technorati cosmos, and related yahoo! news could be such "added" functionality too. 10x10 is such an interesting idea (http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html)
I'm early in the process of creating such an aggregator called lilina, http://lilina.sourceforge.net/ (far from finished but functional :-) I would appreciate any comments.
Panayotis.
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