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• 26 - JP

  Mar 07, 2006 at 1:16 pm

  Paul, I like yours also, and wish I'd read it earlier. That said, I think you provide too many options for a novice - given the high degree of jargon involved. My approach was to describe the features and benefits using a simple, useful aggregator and let the user discover others once hooked.
  
  As for reader type, I've got a few feeds in Google Reader that I can access from home or work, with my existing Gmail account info, but I find web based readers take too long for me to use as my primary reader.
  
  Oh, and OperaFan--not increasing Opera's profile among the hacker community is EXACTLY why I didn't recommend it. Really, I'm looking out for you. ;)

• 27 - Benson

  Mar 07, 2006 at 1:28 pm

  I stumbled on this reader, and have tried most over the last two years or so:
  
  www.start.com
  
  Before you flame me for suggesting a Microsoft Beta product, give it a whirl first.
  
  Finally, a reader that will show the feed, graphics and all, and appears to use an AJAX interface (or MS's Atlas) for quick and easy use, very configurable, and view most feeds at a glance. However, if you're the type that reads hundreds of feeds per day, this reader probably isn't for you.

• 28 - The Spoonman

  Mar 08, 2006 at 6:11 pm

  I'll tell you why I don't use RSS: no value. There's 40 sites in my morning news menu which is nothing more than a folder in my FireFox bookmarks. When I want to read the news, I click Morning -> Open in tabs, and all the sites are there. Why would I want trimmed-down versions of the articles when I can just go to the site in the same amount of time? I think RSS is just for people who don't know how to use the software they already have effectively.

• 29 - Bliffle

  Mar 09, 2006 at 2:10 am

  I've been using an ancient copy of Sharpreader, which seems OK, and I can use keyboard strokes instead of the mouse. Using Firefox, for the tabs, switched from Opera just for a change (anything is better than IE). Still use MIRC for IRC on the few occasions I IRC, but it looks like old IRC servers are gone or something. FWIW.
  
  

• 30 - bend

  Mar 09, 2006 at 10:03 am

  What about Google Personal Home page?
  
  I pipe all my RSS feeds in here (not to mention a gmail account). It's better than any reader I've tried.
  
  Looks pretty much like start.com

• 31 - Jinger Jarrett

  Mar 14, 2006 at 10:48 am

  Any tips on getting Firefox to work?
  
  I downloaded the full version of Mozilla, and my computer kept crashing. Could that be the problem?

• 32 - MongoKansas67

  Apr 15, 2006 at 4:21 am

  Unless I missed someone's comment, nobody mentions the excellent little firefox extension "feed view" in which rss feeds can be viewed just like looking at a webpage. For example Yahoo Top Stories: can be viewed on one page in firefox, find a story thats interesting, open it up in a new tab, in fact I got folders after folders of rss feeds, which can easily be opened, for example ALL of yahoo news feeds can be opened at the same time "open in tabs" and then go through each one and read the articles. I will never live without FEED VIEW!!
  WTG FIREFOX!

• 33 - Danielle

  Apr 22, 2006 at 1:16 am

  What's this 'bout??

• 34 - Jason

  Sep 05, 2006 at 2:05 pm

  Is it just me or does Start.com not work on Opera?

• 35 - Bill

  May 26, 2007 at 9:49 am

  It%5C%27s+a+great+and+valuable+site%21+

• 36 - Toni

  Jul 04, 2007 at 12:49 pm

  
  I was one of those people whos husband went out side the marriage and had sex with another woman and to add insult to injury, had a baby on top of that. If you are not sexually satisfied then leave and be with that person who satisfies you. That is a really hurting feeling. So be there done that.
  
  

• 37 - Rohit

  Feb 05, 2009 at 6:08 am

  I want to congratulate you for such a nice write-up on RSS and i was so very late in reading it out until i decided myself to look for RSS content.
  
  thanks much and a question would be.. i've seen many autoblogs stealing feeds via RSS (wordpress RSS plugins does it all) and showing away only the excerpt along with tonnes of ads to make money for them.. even though its on auto pilot.. where is user base coming from? i m not sure if spiders are crawling to autoblogs via RSS feed links? can you help answer this question of mine.

• 38 - Barry Adams

  Feb 16, 2009 at 6:34 pm

  There are many ways to read blogs via RSS.

  You can just load all your RSS feeds into your blog reader. But why not
  prescan you blogs into categories, and throw out content that doesn't fit. This is what services like Feed Distiller do.