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.
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.