I'm giving RSS another shot. It's obviously superior for browsing lots of sites, but there is something about ripping all content out of it's web page context that I don't like. So I doubt I'll drop the browser all together, but I expect to continue with RSS for a lot of sites that aren't my absolute favorites but that I want to keep track of anyway.

I'm using the very good and very free NetNewsWire Lite (the free lite version is at the bottom of that page.)

And speaking of RSS, CNN has a ton of new RSS feeds.
- jim 1-12-2005 11:08 pm

Okay, I guess I get it this time. It really is very useful. I don't think there's any way I could go back. If you read a lot of blogs you should at least check it out.

What RSS reader do people use on Windows?
- jim 1-16-2005 1:32 am


Okay, my apologies to the RSS gods for not understanding sooner. I am now completely hooked on feeds. I don't read many blogs in their native habitats anymore. It really does seem like the best way to deal with the information overload of this world.

Apple's Safari browser will have an RSS reader included in the next (Tiger) release. Firefox already has a plug in called Sage (I haven't tried.) Although I have to say that Net News Wire lite (free for OS X) is great, with followed links opening seemlessly in new tabs in Safari in either the foreground or background. I'm not sure that complete integration is even necessary, although if it can save the one step copy/paste for subscribing to new feeds that would be nice.
- jim 1-26-2005 7:10 pm


I got hooked on feeds when doing the Eyebeam gig but then I decelerated and went back to the old way, which is hitting a few key bookmarks and following wherever that leads. Bloglines looks pretty good, and I should probably check out that Firefox plugin (I need to upgrade to 1.0 anyway). I guess one decision is how much content comes in the feed. This page that showed up in my log just lists titles. As I mentioned, Bloglines reconstructs entire pages in a different format. How much of a page are you getting fed?
- tom moody 1-26-2005 7:20 pm


How much you get fed is up to the person supplying the feed, not to the software reading the feed. Personally I like getting the full text (and images, and whatever else.) Some sites list multiple feed URIs, with some having the entire content, and some just the headlines.

I guess some people just like to give the headlines because they don't want to lose the traffic? Or the ad views? Seems lame to me but then I'm not trying to make money.
- jim 1-26-2005 7:33 pm





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