The ping feeds are _not_ meant for people looking to be notified of updates to only a small subset. Your best bet is to use Bloglines' (WebService-Bloglines) or NewsGator's apis to pull updates to your subscriptions. RSS aggregation sucks a lot of bandwidth, so if you're not careful, you might find your IP blocked. Definitely try to use an existing aggregator (Plagger looks interesting). Pulling feeds efficiently, and respectfully, is more involved than simple HTTP fetching.

As for full content, look to see if a third party is already doing that for your feed. For instance, I subscriber to alterslash, instead of slashdot.

In reply to Re: RSS Feed Aggregation by frenchtoast
in thread RSS Feed Aggregation by jamesjyu

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