Archive for 12/10/2005
Getting closer to an RSS Reader decision
Dec 10th
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.