Use an RSS Reader for Easy News Gathering

[by Jay Kinghorn]

Blogs are a tremendous source for information, ideas and insights. However, they can also be a tremendous drain on your time and productivity. If you subscribe to more than a handful of blogs or news feeds, an RSS reader like Net News Wire (Mac), FeedDemon (Windows) or Google Reader is essential to quickly sift through a large number of blogs and find the valuable posts hidden within.

An RSS reader aggregates all the unread blog posts from your favorite blogs into a single window. This allows you to quickly skim the headline of each post and read only the articles you’re most interested in. If you’re really tight for time you can flag articles, or pull them into a clippings folder for later reading.

Here are a few links to get you started:
Newsgator
Google Reader
Best RSS Readers

By Jay Kinghorn | Posted: October 28th, 2009 | 4 comments


 

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  1. can we also use an RSS reader as a sort of plug-in to our blog site? or do we have to like download it as a separate program?

    By elleica | Oct 28, 2009

     

  2. Great! Thanks for the information on these RSS reader. I have subscribed to a lot of blogs but regrettably I’m not able to read all of them. It’s nice to know that there are RSS readers that can filter blog posts as well.

    By Laura Grayson | Oct 28, 2009

     

  3. Elleica,

    You can use online RSS readers, like Google Reader and some services, like Yahoo Pipes, allow you to publish an aggregated RSS feed on your Web site, but they do require a little background in HTML and Web publishing to embed it within your Web site.

    By Jay Kinghorn | Oct 28, 2009

     

  4. I recommend to use Feedly (http://www.feedly.com/), Firefox pluggin which is base on Google Reader. You have a last news display like a journal, very easy to use and share. Feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page. I used it for 6 months and I love it!

    Thanks for sharing,
    Frederic

    By Frederic Sune | Oct 28, 2009

     


 

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