River of news

I was talking with Fred the other night and he told me about “the River of news”. I found it very interesting and now yesterday Dave Winner posted an article on his site about the RSS aggregator he is developing. This aggregator will be a River of News and a descendent of earlier aggregators like My.UserLand.Com and Manilla.

Scoble has the first trackback and explains the river of news approach. It is sorta like a daily newspaper. How do you read a newspaper? You scan it! To make it “scanable” you need an editor who decides what the most important story of the day is, and you need journalists that are trained to write in reverse-pyramid style (the important facts of the story are always at the beginning). The River of News works better if there is some kind of “attention” support. So we’re talking about a clever newsreader!

I found newsriver.org but there’s nothing there (yet)?
The first release seems to be available on support.opml.org and runs with the OPML Editor on Windows and Mac OS X. Interesting stuff…