Content aggregation and distribution system built in-house.

Uche Ogbuji on how to configure the Universal Feed Parser.

Charles Johnson’s RSS and Atom feed aggregator plugin for WordPress that parses external feeds into the WP database using MagpieRSS.

If you’re looking for a customisable RSS widget for WordPress, KB Advanced RSS Widget is the way to go.

Mac OS X app for monitoring domains that you own and want to own.

Shelly Powers on the recent Twitter outage, the fate of Delicious since the Microhoo! deal, NetNewsWire since the Gmail move and generally how to look after yourself in “the cloud.”

Shaun Inman’s new self-hosted, feed-reader web app. You run Fever on your own server share (like Mint). Costs US$30. The big difference with Fever is that you can read topics within your feeds based on link popularity—the more of your feeds that point to a link the higher the temperature for that item. So the more feeds you subscribe to, the better it works, or so the pitch goes.

Aaron Swartz on the remarkable fact that the "initial implementing guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)" requires agencies to provide their reporting information in the form of XML feeds, specifically "preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS."