See You Later, Aggregator

The Lemon's visual history of the internet is proving popular for tongue-in-cheek statments such as this:

2001: Blogging invented. Promises to change the way people bore strangers with banal anecdotes about their pets.

They will probably soon have something to say about aggregators, the latest fad -- which I attempted to explain a few weeks back. Meantime, Blogging Headline News is a decent example of an RSS-driven portal, from Australia.

I'm curious to know whether you think aggregators are useful, or will they simply add to an ever-increasing digital deluge of useless information?

Comments

1 comments

Dauber / May 21, 2003 4:50 PM / #

Aggregators like Metapop.com are useful, because they contain a mixture of posts and if you like posts by a certain author you can go and read his or her blog.

It's a way of finding new blogs you like I suppose.

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