Now Read This
Posted on February 18, 2005
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Kenny and I had this discussion Wednesday night during the Illini’s latest thumping, which was delivered to Penn St.
(Bloggers note: Damn, I never imagined how good 26-0 could sound. :)
What is the best RSS reader?
This one’s for you peeps, let me know your thoughts. I have been using Thunderbird for a lot of my feeds, but I am starting to wonder if there is a better way. Basically every news source out there has an RSS feed of some type. Kenny mentioned switching to Bloglines, but I took a look at it and I am not really happy with how it presents the articles.
I do like Thunderbird’s approach, as it gives you each item as if it were an incoming mail message. Providing you with the author and a subject. I can quickly scan the list and select the articles most interesting to me.
Eric had mentioned another tool he found, though I don’t recall the name. Seems it had an IE plugin, which just makes me laugh. I maybe open IE once a week any more, I just don’t need it.
Perhaps I should browse the list of RSS specific clients, maybe there is a tool that I could find useful. Anyone using something outside of the few I have mentioned here?
Random thought: Woot, 100th entry!
All for now.
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4 Responses to “Now Read This”
i had this conversation with him as well … i haven’t actually found a desktop client that i really like and i wasn’t really impressed with bloglines, though it was more what i wanted. What i’m doing right now is running feed on feeds … it keeps things in the spirit of doing it myself, i like that i can check off stories as i read them so i don’t have to keep going through old stuff, and i like that it’s on the website so i can check it from work and home without duplication. i really don’t want to have to wade through stuff over and over. i’m looking at a module from horde for doing rss feeds. so far it’s ok, but it shows me all the articles … i’m going to see if i can hack on it a bit and put in some what of not displaying stuff i’ve already read.
If you want g, we can put a web-based feed aggregator on cthulhu as a service to the users. Let me know if you want to have a look at it.
I’ve installed Pluck (http://www.pluck.com). It’s an IE plugin, but there’s also a version that’s accessible online. It’s supposed to help you access things like bookmarks and RSS feeds while you’re on the go. I haven’t had much of a chance to use it though.
I don’t use them myself but I can list a few I found.
SharpReader: http://www.sharpreader.net/
FeedReader: http://www.feedreader.com/
FeedDemon: http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/
Novobot: http://www.proggle.com/novobot/