Obviously you could build an aggregator with an API that gives you a stream of news. People have been building niche news aggregators on Wordpress for almost two decades by plugging in some RSS feed urls.

It's just the kind of obvious lame idea that stops me from seeing more compelling usages of this sort of cool API.

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