On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:22:19PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > No, a planet aggregates many "columns" (blogs) into one newspaper. > There are still a multitude of information sources - other > "newspapers" - that it doesn't aggregate. It doesn't aggregate > mailing lists like this one
Use a mail to rss gateway. > or those of active free software projects; It doesn't aggregate > forums; It doesn't aggregate news sites (like whatsup and > linmagazine). Both have rss feeds. > It doesn't aggregate stories about free software written in sites > like ynet, captain Internet, and so on. Those I'm not sure about, but hopefully they have or will have rss feeds. > And so on... So this "planet" appears to be an interesting > "newspaper", but just one of many - not one that can replace all. It can replace all, but I'm not sure it would be a pleasant experience. > And frankly, I doubt there can every be one that replaces them > all. There is simply too much information to appear at one place, > too many disagreements on what is the appropriate way to display > this information, and too many alternative ways to interpret the > information. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. I agree---for some things the convenience of rss trumps seeing them in the "original design", for others, reading an rss feed is like reading the subtitles of a movie instead of watching it. Cheers, Muli ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
