We’re happy to tell you p2pnet.net stories are now available via RSS.

If you’re not sure what that is, RSS is verbal shorthand for Really Simple Syndication and as O’Reilly XML.com says here:

"RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs.

"But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the ‘recent changes"’ page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.’

So here you go: http://p2pnet.net/ez/index.php/rss/

Read the Headlines in good health : )

And speaking of readers, we heartily recommend Toomas Toots’ Feedreader Alpha 2.5. It’s simple, extremely user-friendly and gets you straight to the point.

From Estonia Toots, 27, is a major RSS evangalist who started working on Feedreader about three years ago.

The first version just scraped the information from the specific Estonian business newspaper homepage and, "After a month or so I discovered RSS," says Toots. "So I redesigned Feedreader to use RSS as newsfeed standard.

"In the same time I started to promote RSS standard among Estonian media companies. The evangelization went quite good and at the moment all Estonian biggest newspapers and portals have their RSS newsfeeds. Another big achievement was a deal with Estonian biggest newspaper Postimees (belongs to Nordic media corporation www.schibsted.no) who started offering Feedreader to their readers as an alternative to their standard web presence."

As of the beginning of the year, Feedreader was licensed to GPL and sources to Sourceforge.net.

"Now I have an active co-developer who have worked wonders and made Feedreader great deal more stable," Toots adds, adding:

"I really do not get any money directly from Feedreader. I like opensource movement and happy users. There are already too many RSS-readers costing 20$ and offering nothing."

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