Synchronizing RSS

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The use of news aggregators at home and work give rise to the issue of synchronization.

The author of this blog item (<a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000782.html" target="_blank">RSS Behind the Firewall - Jeremy Zawodny</a>) makes a good point about a loosely-coupled model - using RSS to stay abreast of information at home and at work. <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Now I need to have two aggregators: one at home and one at work...</blockquote>The trouble that I perceive he's raising is that with two separate aggregators, it's essentially doubling the setup, configuration, and most importantly, each aggregator is not going to know what the other aggregator is doing. Items that you read at work [of course] show up at home as unread items. This is indeed a thorny issue because synchronizing anything is fundamentally a bad idea.Although I love my client-side news aggregators, this issue points out how important servers are to knowledge systems that help you manage content, regardless of your geographic location or the computing device you happen to be using. As devices become more connected, this issue will grow in complexity - already I suffer from this problem on two desktops, an iPaq, and a notebook.One observation - <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">NewsGator</a> achieves this if (and only if) you use Outlook for e-mail and a Microsoft Exchange folder for persisting incomming news. As you roam from system to system, the Exchange folder is always updated.What's the more pervasive answer? - I'm not sure, but I suspect it has something to do with a meta-data integration platform. ;-) 9 application/xml false aggregator RSS newsreader Synchronizing RSS http://thefeed.no/marcus/archives/000488.html News aggregator synching http://www.pollas.dk/blog/archives/000411.asp Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 190014 false false true false false false true 214 blog blogsite/MySTHome/web