Looks like I need to work this one into my book as well - probably in the chapter on syndication and RDFs. Not especially news-related, but I feel that many of these technologies will be increasingly interconnected as they mature... From Slashdot [2]: PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network [3]: a story about the latest open source p2p social network engine. (But don't go there right now - it's been promptly slashdotted and the site is down at the moment. :-)