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Reading RSS
I read a lot of RSS/Atom news feeds; many blogs, some news sources, some automated updates. I’ve moved between various solutions in the past, but never found one I’ve been particularly happy with.
In the past I’ve used NetNewsWire on my Mac, then added the feeds as syndicated accounts in LiveJournal, then back to NetNewsWire, then Google Reader online, then NewsFire on my Mac, then back to NetNewsWire (with its syncing to newsgator.com, keeping the same ‘read’ status between the Mac, online, and iPhone).
For a while I had most of my LJ friends added to NetNewsWire too, using the digest authentication so I could read friends-locked posts, but this wasn’t ideal for keeping up with comments.
Now I’ve moved around again, adding most of the blog-style feeds to Dreamwidth; I’ll see how I get on with them here. I find that reading longer articles works better in a web browser, whether on Mac or iPhone. I’ll keep the news-style feeds (like various BBC news feeds, The Register, MediaGuardian) in NetNewsWire; I don’t think feeds that add tens of items a day are a good fit for LiveJournal-style reading.
In the past I’ve used NetNewsWire on my Mac, then added the feeds as syndicated accounts in LiveJournal, then back to NetNewsWire, then Google Reader online, then NewsFire on my Mac, then back to NetNewsWire (with its syncing to newsgator.com, keeping the same ‘read’ status between the Mac, online, and iPhone).
For a while I had most of my LJ friends added to NetNewsWire too, using the digest authentication so I could read friends-locked posts, but this wasn’t ideal for keeping up with comments.
Now I’ve moved around again, adding most of the blog-style feeds to Dreamwidth; I’ll see how I get on with them here. I find that reading longer articles works better in a web browser, whether on Mac or iPhone. I’ll keep the news-style feeds (like various BBC news feeds, The Register, MediaGuardian) in NetNewsWire; I don’t think feeds that add tens of items a day are a good fit for LiveJournal-style reading.
Google Reader
From your 98 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4,316 items, starred 439 items, shared 32 items, and emailed 2 items.
But, I do most of my reading just on the PC as I don't find the Blackberry very useful as a feed reading device, and it's also pretty expensive to use here.
Re: Google Reader
I do much of my news reading when travelling to and from work (glad to have Andrew to drive me about!), or at odd moments when I have my phone to hand. It is often over the mobile network rather than wifi, and not necessarily with a good connection. (There are patches of poor reception between Leuchars and the Tay Bridge, and south of St Andrews on the smaller roads reception can be unpredictable.)
Being able to load an LJ-style friends page, with lots of content on it, gives me a good bit of reading without needing a constant connection, and NetNewsWire does a good job of downloading updates and then letting me read them without complaining when the network comes and goes.