Every schoolkid since the late 1950s probably remembers a self-study reader program just like this, from SRA. All that's really different in the digital age is the feedback loop.

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So in other words, in layman's terms, instead of going to your favorite 15 websites that you always visit everyday, you can have those favorite 15 websites send you the updates of their sites to your reader program on your computer.

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Now, what this allows you to do, a reader is really a program that allows you to aggregate information that's out on the Internet.

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And essentially, it allows you to sign up or subscribe to for free to your favorite websites that offer this RSS technology, and then you download an RSS reader, a simple program that you download on your computer that allows you to receive any updates that you subscribe to.

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Below, from an Cork, Ireland-based reader, who used a different program, iFunBox, to map his data.

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Relying on Docu-Scope, a visualization and text-tagging software program, Witmore and his across-the-pond colleague Jonathan Hope, a reader at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, discovered at the level of grammar just how far Shakespeare was willing to break conventions.

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In 2004 the company, with USAid, launched a pilot program that lets doctors adjust an HIV patient's antiviral prescription by entering data into a card reader.

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In Germany, Heise Online, an online news site, last year faced a temporary restraining order preventing it from publishing reader comments that call on others to overload a company's server by massively downloading a program.

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