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Wired has an awesome top story today on the world of startups utilizing scraped documents from big companies to offer new layers of value for their own users. It’s a roughly objective piece that I highly recommend reading but it was plus inspiration for me to finally

record a screencast on the subject (see below).

I love RSS, probably more than anything on the web. whether you’re not familiar with the concept, see my very old definition of RSS and my almost-as-old post on teaching humans about RSS.

Not every page on the web publishes an RSS feed, though. Thus the need for these wonderful screen scraping tools. […]

Orginal post by Marshall Kirkpatrick