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I never followed any blogs, though I love a lot of blog posts; I think I just never found a way to follow them efficiently. I don't like simply visiting a bunch of separate websites everyday to see what's new, and I never found an RSS reader that I liked (and was too lazy to make my own). It's probably why I gravitated towards social news aggregators such as HN, Reddit, and Hubski.
I feel the same way towards RSS. I tried a few programs and Google Reader, but I never really enjoyed the experience. So, I trimmed my daily visits to a handful of sites. One of them is my favorite news aggregator: 3 Quarks Daily.
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briandmyers · 4520 days ago · link ·
For RSS, I've been using FeedReader for a few years now, it's easy, pretty simple, and free. Didn't like Google Reader at all.
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I used to run the FeedReader extension on Chrome, but I felt kinda bad about leaving all those blog posts and news unread. The number just kept growing and growing and I couldn't keep up. Eventually, I just unistalled it and instituted a daily rotation around a few websites.
I can't recall its name, but I used to have a program that ran at the top of the screen, showing you the latest headlines from your feeds. It was awful. I felt drowning under the information flood.
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briandmyers · 4520 days ago · link ·
I only use it for a few feeds, like discussion/support groups for microprocessors I use, that sort of thing. And Hacker News, and a very few others. Too many feeds and it becomes a burden. But, it's really good for the sites that don't publish often.
Do you have a iOS device forewardslash? If so, I highly recommend 'Zite'. It delivers an article stream based on a collection of topics you choose, and you can vote articles or authors up or down if you want. But the bottom line is that it gives you a range of stories, but introduces some serendipity as the story sources are not hardwired like a traditional RSS reader.
I didn't think I would like it that much, but it has surprised me. It's been my favorite way to read news for a while now, with aggregators filling rounding it out.
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forwardslash · 4519 days ago · link ·
My fiancee as an iPhone, so I may give it a go on hers; thanks for the recommendation.
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Yeah, give it a whirl, but imo, the app gets better the more time you spend with it, because you get to see the serendipity of new, related articles popping up from sources that you have not seen before.
For any given topic, like technology for instance, it's going to cover the major trending topics and include the obvious players as far as tech blogs, but smaller unknown ones will often pop into the stream over time. That's what I like about it. Come to think of it, it's kind of like Hubksi's being able to adjust how many unfollowed users pop into your stream :)