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By: Ed Walker

Ed Walker — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:06:38 +0000

I’m a bloglines man. It was the first RSS reader I ever used, and I find it really simple and easy to use – plus it’s very organised. Although I might give Tailrank a try – sounds good, and as you said ‘the sunday newspaper’ of the RSS world.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:07:31 +0000

My homepage is Netvibes. On there I’ve got my the blogs and site feeds (including a google blog search) that I’ve come to use most or I absolutely can’t miss (e.g. Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth, DeSmogBlog, RealClimate). I like it because it’s also where I have my to-do lists, so I’ve got my starting point for the day all in one place online.

Then for the masses I use RSSOWL, which is not webbased. I like it because I can use news bins and folders to move the best feeds into. I’ve got ‘ongoing’ newsbins for climate change, journalism and other research, and all of the feeds (about 300) in folders, hidden away, but which can be aggregated into one folder-feed, so I can check 30-40 blog feeds all in one. It’s great for keeping archives of stuff to return to over the long-term, such as for a conference paper I know I have to write in December.

I also save them to delicious if I think they’re useful across a network.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:20:22 +0000

I wouldn’t be reading this blog if not for Google Reader. Actually, that’s not quite true. It was Twitter that first alerted me to it. I then added it to Reader.

By: Cyril

Cyril — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:10:43 +0000

I used to be on Bloglines three years ago then went to Google Reader two years after and never looked back.

Now I’m thinking of creating a Netvibes universe that I can use alongside Google Reader to prioritize stories.

By: Ludovic Dubost

Ludovic Dubost — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:37 +0000

You should try feedly (http://www.feedly.com). I use to use bloglines but feedly really allowed me to get one step further, especially with the social tools integration.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:28:24 +0000

I like the idea of using Tailrank once a week, I think I’ll look into that.

I’ve been using Bloglines and Google Reader together for a while. Google Reader sits on my homepage and I keep on top of that by regularly starring/marking as read – that’s mainly the stuff that gets fed into http://www.createdinbirmingham.com. There’s a risk of distraction but I figure running CiB justifies it.

Bloglines has my less essential stuff – RSS feeds of keyword searches, social media/online marketing blogs and so on. I’ll usually clear that out daily but it’s very rare that I’ll save anything from it. Maybe some of that stuff would be better off in Tailrank.