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Brian Benzinger, from Solution Watch, has compiled a rather large list of single-page aggregators similar to Original Signal that I wrote about earlier this week. What is a single page aggregator exactly? Well, Brian coined the term because right now there doesn’t seem to be anything better to call them. These sites are generally focused on one topic or area of interest and gather the latest stories from the top sites for that topic and present all the latest headlines on one page. Interested in Nintendo’s upcoming next generation console, but don’t want to visit a bunch of sites or subscribe to feeds? Just drop by WiiNintendo and get Wii headlines from sixteen sites.

I much prefer subscribing to RSS feeds I’m interested in and using my readers smart filters to extract the stories I’m interested in. People who don’t like or haven’t discovered the joys of RSS yet, could shave quite a bit of time off of their Web surfing time with sites like this. Popurls pretty much started the single page aggregator idea a few months ago which has been expanding steadily ever since. I wouldn’t be surprised if in another month Brian could add another ten sites to his list.