I clicked on it and they all went away again. Incidentally I was trying to find a way to add a new folder to “bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com when this happened. The new folder option is very well hidden.
Danny O’Brien has an article in this week’s “New Scientist”:http://www.newscientist.com about RSS newsreaders.
bq. At seven o’clock every evening, Robert Scoble settles down on his sofa with his tablet PC and checks what’s new on more than a thousand websites.
Whilst I was half expecting to find out some new and exciting scientific treatment that would be available to cure this poor addicted person of his cruel affliction, I was no less delighted to read about RSS.
The Bloglines Toolkit for Mozilla written by Chad Everett is something I meant to blog about last week before the “MovableType”:http://www.movabletype.com situation occurred. It puts the bloglines notifier into your Mozilla-based browser. I installed it straightaway, and have just “upgraded to the latest version (version 0.9)”:http://www.cxliv.org/jayseae/2004/05/13/bloglines_toolkit_v0r9.html.
Allowing me to subscribe to feeds, search for references or even search for highlighted text it is a very useful addition to my set of extensions.
The new Google Groups beta lets you put newsgroups in your aggregator by providing Atom feeds for each group. Very clever idea. ["via (Kryogenix.org)":http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/05/13/newsgroups]
I download the beta version of FeedDemon today, after it has received some good reviews.
I prefer “SharpReader”:http://www.sharpreader.net still. The interface, whilst looking very nice, is very cluttered. There are many features that require a lot of setting up, you really can’t grab a feed and go.
I appreciate it is a beta, but there seems to be issues there aren’t bugs, but features that work a lot differently to the way I was expecting them. To me this seems like something that won’t be fixed in production, but is the way it is going to be.
The newspaper view is rather gimmicky. There is no way to change the setup at the moment, I think that this is something that might come in a future version, but layout of important entries around a side column of less important entries doesn’t feel like something that can be done automatically.
A big letdown was the limit of 150 items per channel, meaning I couldn’t import everything I wanted from SharpReader. No, I’m sticking with SharpReader for the time being. Clean, simple to use, lack of clutter.
Just when the technical weblog world want to rip it up and start again, the BBC get on board. Adrian Holovaty has news of the BBS News RSS feeds going live { via “Simon Willison”:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/06/24/bbcNewsFeeds ]. Great news. Even better is the bookmark that automatically tells you what the RSS feed is for each site.
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