Winer has a short, simple explanation of what news aggregators are. Now all we need is a similarly clear and simple explanation of RSS. (All I could find were pretty technical pages for RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 (the latter link is not working this morning, however).
RSS and news aggregators
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I’ve written one! http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml