[X4U] RSS reader question

[Jim Warthman]

On 2005-03-24 7:54 AM, "eleventhvolume" <colin at eleventhvolume.com> wrote:

>> I don't think much of any of these RSS news readers and I don't see much
>> value in any of them, Net News Reader just takes you to a website and you
>> read the story through your browser anyway. I think it works best through
>> your regular web browser. I use Firefox subscribe to whatever feeds I want,
>> set the bookmark in the personal toolbar and check it whenever I want that
>> way. The use of so called "readers" seems totally redundant and a waste of
>> time. 
>> 
>> I suppose YMMV but that my2scents
>
> Different strokes, different folks, but here's my tuppence ha'penny, written
> for a work colleague.

I strongly agree with Colin.

I only recently started using RSS. I tried a couple RSS readers, and have
(for the moment) settled on the beta version of NetNewsWire. I imported a
huge list of feeds, and arranged them into logical groups (like nested
folders). I can drill down, and see stories in an individual RSS feed, or I
can click on one of the folders, and see all the stories from all the feeds
in the folder and its sub-folders.

But the really cool thing is, NetNewsWire lets me make "smart lists", which
essentially search through all the stories from all the feeds I've
subscribed to, looking for just those stories that match my criteria. So, in
addition to my feeds that are arranged by topic, I have a collection of
smart lists that turn up a relatively few stories each day. If I'm in a
hurry, I only bother looking through those stories. If I have the time to
more leisurely browse, I can examine one or more topic folders in detail.

Until I had tried it, I didn't appreciate how useful the RSS approach to
reading current stories, blogs, etc. would be.

Enjoy!

-- Jim