I'm not going to make a huge deal about this, but River2, my river-of-news aggregator, turned 1.0 yesterday.  

To celebrate, I also did a new release of the OPML Editor, the environment that River2 runs in. 

So if you've wanted to operate your own river-of-news, now's a good time to start.  

Examples of rivers: 1, 2, 3, 4. 

Who would find this interesting: news organizations and journalism schools. Operating a river is a way to automate news gathering in your sphere of interest, your community. And for J-schools, it's a way to give your students a head start on the news system of the future, which will surely operate in this fashion. Imho of course.  

I would love to get feedback from any news org or J-school that started doing rivers with this software.  

It's available for Mac and Windows. The Mac version is a universal binary, no more need to run Rosetta. The Windows version runs nicely in EC2 for Poets, which means you can operate a river in the cloud if you want.  

EC2 for Poets also got a refresh a few weeks ago, so it's current and tested, and works nicely.  

Support is available on the River2 mail list. 

If you're an old-time Frontier user wondering what this is all about, we made a site just for you that explains!