The RSS Reader is an entirely broken device. The reading experience is wrong. The idea that 68 posts covering Google conquests can hit me in a single day is evidence.
My entire field of news and information is flattened by my feed reader. Topic, author, credibility, popularity, context, and relevancy are all stripped.
I want a new reading device. I want it web-based and fast and platform ambivalent. I want it to keep conversations from piling up if I don’t have time to read them. And I want it to leave the context in my content.
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What reader are you using? I have found the web version of NewsGator to be most excellent. I haven’t tried many others but haven’t found a need to. Maybe a need to start dating again.
I use Google Reader most frequently but play with 8 of them (including NewsGator.) None of them weight content.
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