"Take your jumbled mess of feeds and make them one."

Aggregated blog posts about Django, updated every hour.

"The truth is, if anything, it is the growth of the Internet itself — not link aggregation — that has undermined your businesses by destroying the virtual monopoly that you once held over the mass distribution of written news."

Feed reader twist.

Reblogging, concerns. How excerpts are being handled.

Alternative to other RSS services.

"Posts are generally good for $250. One recently laid-off staffer who’s been pitching the site was told posts could get $300 to $500—others say it’s closer to 50 cents per word. Seven hundred words? Three hundred and fifty bucks. Another tells us that there are bonuses for reporting." The high end rate for aggregator/group blogs? I feel less bad about offering 25 cents a word ...

Hybrid aggregator-news sites are on the rise, and the online media market is more complex than usually portrayed/debated. How will it all shake out? "The story to watch is not if, but how these hybrid models develop."

"Most new sites are at the wrong end of the value chain."