08 August 2008 11:15
RSS: What is a 'River of News' style aggregator?
by greut & 1 other (via)Standard news readers organize feeds into groups, and then under each feed are items. If there's an unread item in a feed, the feed's name is bold. If you leave the cursor on an item long enough the feed name goes un-bold. These programs work much like mail readers, so much so that they are sometimes even integrated into mail readers.
the concept of "river of news" origin