The World of RSS Explorations
http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/05/30/friday_feast_46_the_world_of_rss_explorations/

Kaiser, Shirley E.
Brainstorms and Raves
2003

Abstract:

I’ve now seen firsthand that RSS feedreaders, or news aggregators, truly can provide the ability to literally scan hundreds of site updates and headlines in a matter of seconds, letting me know when those sites have updated posts or news. Depending on the software used, the user can be notified by a bubble popping up, a sound, or the headlines appearing in a list with a right click mouseover on the aggregator’s system tray icon, for example.