Comments on: Recommend a good offline RSS aggregator? http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:03:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Andrew Ferguson dot NET » I Wonder What It Would Take For Scoble To Read My Blog http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-25295 Andrew Ferguson dot NET » I Wonder What It Would Take For Scoble To Read My Blog Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:01:31 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-25295 [...] I got tired of using Thunderbird for my RSS viewing. Yes, it works great if you just read a handful of feeds, but I’ve been adding a bunch lately and I’m looking for more. But back tracking a bit: I did some poking around on TDavid’s site and Scoble’s site to see what they were using. Scoble uses FeedDemon and TDavid is still looking for program that works well with tablet view and whatnot. At the recomendation of TDavid, also took a look at what Wikipedia was linking to. After looking at a couple dozen programs, I downloaded Jet Brains Omea Reader, FeedDemon, and GreatNews RSS Reader. GreatNews I dumped right away because I didn’t like the way is displayed each blog as a collection of newspaper articles. FeedDemon and Omea Reader I like better, however FeedDemon costs money to own and the interface was not to my liking. Specifically, it was hard to delete posts and when I did delete them, they would come back. So I dumped it yesterday, leaving Omea Reader (OR) as the winner, for now. So what does this have to do with trying to get Scoble to read me. Well, I’m getting there. FeedDemon massively populated their program with tons of blogs. I wanted more, so I turned to Scoble who is also complaining about how many feeds he just has to read. So I downloaded his OPML file and imported it into OR. I’m not quite sure how many feeds he reads, but I just imported almost 16,000 posts…so I’m guessing it’s a lot. Here’s the thing though. Looking at just the first dozen feeds, Scoble doesn’t read all tech blogs. Some feeds are updated several times a day, some every couple days, and some every couple weeks or even months. It seems to me that Scoble has a pretty good cross section of blogs. [...] […] I got tired of using Thunderbird for my RSS viewing. Yes, it works great if you just read a handful of feeds, but I’ve been adding a bunch lately and I’m looking for more. But back tracking a bit: I did some poking around on TDavid’s site and Scoble’s site to see what they were using. Scoble uses FeedDemon and TDavid is still looking for program that works well with tablet view and whatnot. At the recomendation of TDavid, also took a look at what Wikipedia was linking to. After looking at a couple dozen programs, I downloaded Jet Brains Omea Reader, FeedDemon, and GreatNews RSS Reader. GreatNews I dumped right away because I didn’t like the way is displayed each blog as a collection of newspaper articles. FeedDemon and Omea Reader I like better, however FeedDemon costs money to own and the interface was not to my liking. Specifically, it was hard to delete posts and when I did delete them, they would come back. So I dumped it yesterday, leaving Omea Reader (OR) as the winner, for now. So what does this have to do with trying to get Scoble to read me. Well, I’m getting there. FeedDemon massively populated their program with tons of blogs. I wanted more, so I turned to Scoble who is also complaining about how many feeds he just has to read. So I downloaded his OPML file and imported it into OR. I’m not quite sure how many feeds he reads, but I just imported almost 16,000 posts…so I’m guessing it’s a lot. Here’s the thing though. Looking at just the first dozen feeds, Scoble doesn’t read all tech blogs. Some feeds are updated several times a day, some every couple days, and some every couple weeks or even months. It seems to me that Scoble has a pretty good cross section of blogs. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » 241 days of Tablet PC ownership http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13994 Make You Go Hmm: » 241 days of Tablet PC ownership Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:42:53 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13994 [...] , blogs and other RSS feeds with a slate. I’m still demoing and searching for a good offline RSS aggregator solution. Would like to explore blogging while working out as my blogging time [...] […] , blogs and other RSS feeds with a slate. I’m still demoing and searching for a good offline RSS aggregator solution. Would like to explore blogging while working out as my blogging time […]

]]> By: Kevin http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13441 Kevin Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:36:45 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13441 JetBrains' Omea Reader 2.0 (http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/) JetBrains’ Omea Reader 2.0 (http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/)

]]> By: Nicole http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13361 Nicole Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:45:19 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13361 That onfolio edition has problems with firefox, does not sync up my bloglines (yes, I researched that extra tool), can't easily be shut down and has problems doing it's job. :) And yes, as my tablet is about to arrive: More ink related software please ;)))) My requests are mainly sync with Bloglines not the 'mark everything read' but synchronise the state of items read or not. For the rest, that is not that important for me, I can tell it to update. (At the moment I am thinking about splitting my bloglist into 'to be read on tablet' and 'needs to be read online' because most of the readers do not work in this syncing mode in a way I could use it.) That onfolio edition has problems with firefox, does not sync up my bloglines (yes, I researched that extra tool), can’t easily be shut down and has problems doing it’s job. :)

And yes, as my tablet is about to arrive: More ink related software please ;))))
My requests are mainly sync with Bloglines not the ‘mark everything read’ but synchronise the state of items read or not. For the rest, that is not that important for me, I can tell it to update.

(At the moment I am thinking about splitting my bloglist into ‘to be read on tablet’ and ‘needs to be read online’ because most of the readers do not work in this syncing mode in a way I could use it.)

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13355 TDavid Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:46:13 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13355 Onfolio is running a special until August 8 for the personal edition for free. I downloaded that one and am checking it out. Doesn't seem from a quick glance to have WP posting support, also it didn't seem to want to refresh some of my 350+ RSS feeds. Onfolio is running a special until August 8 for the personal edition for free. I downloaded that one and am checking it out. Doesn’t seem from a quick glance to have WP posting support, also it didn’t seem to want to refresh some of my 350+ RSS feeds.

]]> By: Warner Crocker http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13352 Warner Crocker Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:36:28 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050807/2209/#comment-13352 I love Onfolio. www.onfolio.com. It's much more than a RSS reader. Too bad it doesn't have ink support. I love Onfolio. www.onfolio.com. It’s much more than a RSS reader. Too bad it doesn’t have ink support.

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