Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Bloglines love
Have to give a quick plug to a web app that has proven to be one of my favorite, and one of the most productivity enhancing (oof – can you smell the corporate on me?) tools I use. The app is called Bloglines, and is a new feed reader, which means it allows you to subscribe to sites, and it will collect any new data from those sites for you. This means you can subscribe to all of your favorite blogs and only have to go to one page to read them all. I’ve tried a couple of news readers in the past and have been less than impressed. Bloglines was suggested as an option by Andrew and as soon as I started using it I knew it was a keeper. I think it’s the layout that won me over – very simple – the sites you subscribe to are displayed in a tree on the left side of the page. When new stories are posted to the sites they are bolded in the tree and the number of new posts is displayed. To see the stories click on the site in the tree, and the new posts for that site are displayed on the right side of the page. Simple, easy, definitely a winner. Thanks Andrew.
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Interesting take... It's funny how everyone has different things they like. I am not a fan of bloglines b/c I actually like the experience of going to someone's site and being in their own personalized environment.
Plus if you want to comment, you still need to click over to their site to do so. But yet, I know lots of people who feel like you do.
I mostly just use it as an indication that there is a new post - if it is something I want to read I usually click on it to read it in its natural environ.
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