On 5/25/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield the other day and being > > asked me, "Don't you read my blog?" and I had to admit that I hadn't > > in a long while, I starting thinking about how much I am missing by > > not having a good system in place for reading RSS feeds. > > I use NetNewsWire Pro ($25) on Mac which synchronizes with NewsGator > online (I think FeedDemon does this too?).
FeedDemon syncs with NewsGator as well. Newsgator built web and Outlook clients for RSS aggregation and then bought the best of breed on PC (FeedDemon) and Mac (NetNewsWire). I've used both and FeedDemon is one of three apps that I still run under Parallels on my Mac b/c I just can't live without it. NetNewsWire Pro was pretty hot too, and both have new versions out/beta but between the two clients and the online access it's hard to beat them. > I have 193 individual blog feeds in NNW - I don't subscribe to > aggregators because I like to be able to view an individual blog's > posts. I have feeds grouped into about a dozen broad categories with a > few uncategorized stragglers. Some groups I just briefly skim > headlines, others I pay more attention to. Some of the stragglers are > important feeds (like BART service advisories!). I check feeds about > twice a days, flagging interesting sounding articles for when I have a > bit more time. I go through flagged items every couple of days. I do a similar thing. FeedDemon also lets you set up searches and updates those everytime the feeds update, so you can search for something like "Fusebox" and all posts relating to that word get stored in the Search like it's a separate feed (basically it's a mini-aggregator using the search terms). > To be fair, one thing in my favor is that I'm a speed reader with a > semi-eidetic memory so I'm able to just "see" interesting phrases when > I glance over a page. Even so, there are techniques that everyone can > learn to improve there reading speed and observation skills which help > with information management... I also find that over time, I know enough from the titles from a lot of my regular feeds whether it's going to be useful. Jeremy Zawodny has great info on MySQL and Y!, but a lot also about flying so I know now how to mentally filter it -- just like Sean and that stuff about cats ;) > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279238 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
