What's your RSS reader of choice?
Reading Robert Scoble's blog this morning he says he's read 25,000 articles on his Google Reader in the last month. What's that, about 1000 every day? Blimey.
Has anyone noticed how Scoble's some kind of one man PR machine for Google Reader right now? He doesn't stop blubbing about its shortcut keys etc etc. I love it too, but can't quite come to dump my Bloglines. It's quicker, better on my BlackBerry and doesn't go all glitchy when I integrate my blogroll. Maybe in time Google will take over my RSS habit as well as everything else?
So I'm using Bloglines and Google Reader right now. Is there a better model on the market I would be saving heaps of time by using? Which one do you use?
Bloglines. Ok so its pig ugly, but it works well on the mobile browser of my e61, it is easy to manage and feed by blog roll and its fast.
It's the better mousetrap syndrome, unless something is vastly better I have no incentive to move.
Oh and happy 2k7 Drew.
Posted by: Ged | January 04, 2007 at 11:08 AM
I've tried 'em all - but can't stop using NetNewsWire Lite.
It's fast, does most of what I need it to for me and you can read it offline.
Plus I've been using it since the first day I learnt what RSS was, and now I'm over 30 I'm afraid of change.
Posted by: Jon Silk | January 05, 2007 at 04:55 PM
Bloglines is better for BlackBerries too - been using Google Reader sporadically for a few months and it's rubbish at mobile - and is also very slow, as Jon will testify. He saw it live almost crash my mac today.
But Google Reader has so many more functions it's difficult to leave once you're sat at your desk.
Posted by: Drew B | January 05, 2007 at 07:24 PM
Although technically it is not only an RSS reader, I feel Netvibes is the daddy. Designing you own homepage, you can skim all your feeds as well as add other stuff such as your del.icio.us links and google email. You have to be a bit simple not to use this simple tool.
Posted by: Jonny Rosemont | January 06, 2007 at 12:23 PM
I was a die-hard NetNewsWire fan until I discovered Vienna (I'm a Mac user). It's an open-source rss/atom reader. It's a little bit slower than NNW, but if (like me), you spend a lot of time sucking blogs into a reader, then design, functionality and the feel of an application is as important as speed. I won't post a link for the download but its pretty easy to find.
Posted by: nic mitham | January 06, 2007 at 07:58 PM
I've been Bloglines to the core til yesterday. I think they've finally cracked it over at Google. I've tried each new iteration but always gomne back tpo Bloglines. This time it just feels right...
Posted by: Antony Mayfield | January 07, 2007 at 07:45 PM