Since everything has to be an obsession with me, I’ve spent days searching for the perfect RSS reader. As you might expect, it doesn’t exist :)   I’ve scoured many a site, including Scoble for recommendations and tried probably 15 different readers, but haven’t fallen in love.

These are the things I want to see most in my reader:

  • Integrated posting to Wordpress
  • Fast and lightweight
  • Opening links to full posts is as fast as Firefox tabbed browsing
  • Imports Firefox bookmarks and discovers feeds in them
  • Refreshes automatically
  • Allows me to publish my blogroll, etc. easily
  • Various other things that I think of when I see them :)

To meet most of those requirements, it has to be either Firefox or web based, which I was initially opposed to but am starting to come around to. None of the Firefox readers worked well enough for me, for various reasons. Of them, I liked http://sage.mozdev.org the best, but still didn’t quite click for me.

So, it was off to Bloglines and Newsgator. It’s too soon to give a final impression of either, but so far Bloglines seemed to get me up and moving more quickly, and seems to have more features. I like the idea of Newsgator’s Outlook integration (and in fact tried Attensa (which supports posting, but not Wordpress, for shame!) and others) but I couldn’t quite get it to mesh with my normal Outlook habits.

So I think I’m going to set Bloglines as my homepage for a while and see how it goes. I’m interested in feedback and thoughts from everyone else out there.