I am well-known to my friends as an information junkie. Information overload? Ha! No such thing. I just need bigger barrels so I can get it into my system. This last week I found two tools that help me manage: PubSub and Great News. Info junkies are loving the proliferation of RSS technology. If you’ve missed it, RSS is a syndication protocol that lets various content providers distribute their content in a semi-automatic fashion. As a consumer of information, you can subscribe (usually for free) to various RSS feeds to grab the headlines and article summaries as they appear. The system is not glamorous; these are summaries, not full blown articles, but the immediacy and ease of use make RSS a real winner. To gather a variety of RSS feeds into one easy to use interface, you need an RSS reader. Readers can be clunky affairs, like the ones built into browsers and email clients. I haven’t seen one embedded reader that I thought was worth a darn; they all look like what they are: after thoughts. There is, however, an increasing number of stand alone RSS readers and a large number of web-based aggregation services. While some of the web-based services are very popular (like Feedster), they have never been favorites of mine. I don’t like having to visit the website, log in, be bombarded by ads, etc., etc. So, for me, the answer was a stand-alone reader. Try as I might, I had not been able to find […]
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