Via Micro Persuasion comes news that CNET News.com has launched a Web-based RSS news aggregator called Newsburst. The site, now in preview, will compete with Bloglines and Rojo, notes Micro Persuasion’s Steve Rubel. Newsburst describes itself this way: “Newsburst is a personalized tool that tracks virtually any type of information on the Web: news, blogs, shopping lists, weather, search results, alerts, auctions and more.”

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