I've had several people come up to me or contact me after recent presentations to ask about the concept of news aggregators and their future impact. I still need to write up something about all of this, but when they ask what to look for, I tell them to start looking for the little orange box that says XML on the sites that they visit. In libraryland, that amounts to a few blogs, but that will slowly change. I'd really like to see American Libraries, Library Journal, LII What's New, Library Juice, and other big-time library sites RSS-ify themselves so that they'll appear in my news aggregator, but I know that's a ways off.

It will happen eventually, though. It's exciting to find a new site that interests you and see that little orange box. So imagine how wonderful it is to see a regional newspaper, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal in South Carolina, syndicate their headlines! Yes, check out their Latest Top Headlines and scroll down a bit, looking on the left-hand side. Right now, it's something that is incredibly rare for a professional newspaper's site, but what you're starting at is the future.

"Our headlines, your Weblog." That's the tagline, and what a succinct one it is, too. Congratulations to the Herald-Journal for shifting themselves into their readers' worlds!

[The Shifted Librarian]

Well, you don't necessarily need to wait for them to RSS-ify themselves, you can RSS-ify them on your own if you want. We have developed a Radio Tool that you can install on your copy of Radio that lets you do just this. Check this out