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## What is News River?
-[News River](https://newsriver.xangelo.ca) is an auto-updating stream of news that doesn't need to clutter up your RSS feeds. It was based off ideas from [https://scripting.com](Dave Winer). There are some sites that you don't necessarily CARE about reading every single update. Sometimes you just want to see the most recent stuff and move on. Sites like [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com) and some subreddits ([/r/devops](https://reddit.com/r/devops) or [/r/aws](https://reddit.com/r/aws)) are things that I'm curious about more recent things that get up there, but I don't necessarily want to read every single item. Normally I'm just skimming for interesting titles.
+[News River](https://newsriver.xangelo.ca) is an auto-updating stream of news that doesn't need to clutter up your RSS feeds. It was based off ideas from [Dave Winer](https://scripting.com). There are some sites that you don't necessarily CARE about reading every single update. Sometimes you just want to see the most recent stuff and move on. Sites like [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com) and some subreddits ([/r/devops](https://reddit.com/r/devops) or [/r/aws](https://reddit.com/r/aws)) are things that I'm curious about more recent things that get up there, but I don't necessarily want to read every single item. Normally I'm just skimming for interesting titles.
I used to have these things synced up to my RSS reader, but the sheer number of updates to them caused me to go insane. There's no reasonable way to keep up with all of that stuff. So I had to pull them and then just.. remember to go there. Eventually I got tired of that and wrote the first News River system. You provide a list of sources (RSS or RedditJSON) and it will periodically scan them, download the items, save them, and serve them up for you to see in a simple little auto-updating front-end.
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