Monday, November 24, 2003
RSS Aggregators
Ok, so the list of feeds I'm subscribed to is 62. That's nothing compared to scoble's, but that's still not a small number. I use Bloglines to manage it all. Bloglines isn't perfect, but it's nice to be able to maintain my blogroll in one place and access it from anywhere. I've tried a half-dozen RSS readers, and there have only been a couple that were worth using. I hated Newsgator. I couldn't search entries, and there was no way to flag an item I wanted to look at later. Very annoying. RSSBandit is not bad (and the price is right), but it wasn't as full featured as the others, and it has the world's worst application icon (what can I say, aesthetics matter). The only one I've found that was promising was FeedDemon. It's not perfect, and it seems to want to push a bunch of feeds on me (which is probably not bad for a beginner), but the GUI is great, and it's very easy to use. My only complaint about it is that when I right-click on an rss feed in a web page, it doesn't give me an option to subscribe to a feed. Newsgator does this, which is about the only thing I liked about it.
For now I'll stick with Bloglines, since I can use it from my linux machine at home as well as Windows 2000 at work, and I don't have to try and keep several different feed lists in sync.
P.S. If you want to see who I'm subscribed to, go here.
Ok, so the list of feeds I'm subscribed to is 62. That's nothing compared to scoble's, but that's still not a small number. I use Bloglines to manage it all. Bloglines isn't perfect, but it's nice to be able to maintain my blogroll in one place and access it from anywhere. I've tried a half-dozen RSS readers, and there have only been a couple that were worth using. I hated Newsgator. I couldn't search entries, and there was no way to flag an item I wanted to look at later. Very annoying. RSSBandit is not bad (and the price is right), but it wasn't as full featured as the others, and it has the world's worst application icon (what can I say, aesthetics matter). The only one I've found that was promising was FeedDemon. It's not perfect, and it seems to want to push a bunch of feeds on me (which is probably not bad for a beginner), but the GUI is great, and it's very easy to use. My only complaint about it is that when I right-click on an rss feed in a web page, it doesn't give me an option to subscribe to a feed. Newsgator does this, which is about the only thing I liked about it.
For now I'll stick with Bloglines, since I can use it from my linux machine at home as well as Windows 2000 at work, and I don't have to try and keep several different feed lists in sync.
P.S. If you want to see who I'm subscribed to, go here.
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