Making this site RSS friendly.

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The Politboro Diktat had a rave review about RSS readers today. I’m curious about how many of our readers use RSS in one form or another, whether there’s a particular format that all y’all prefer (I posted an Atom[?] feed link earlier), anything we could do to help out our RSS-using guests, etc etc etc…

14 thoughts on “Making this site RSS friendly.”

  2. FeedDemon is my weapon of choice. And ObsWi has been delightfully aggregated by it for months now.

  5. I am so late to the RSS party, but it would be really useful for this site what with the sheer volume of posts.
    In fact, a comments RSS feed for some posts would be rock and roll too.

  6. I don’t read blogs that do not have RSS feeds. (actually that’s a lie, there is one I read, but that is only because it’s a pretty good blog, IMHO)

  7. Okay, I’m going to expose my ignorance. If I want to read a blog, I just go there. A little bit of research on bloglines and feeddemon, and I now realize there may be a better way. Or maybe it’s not a better way. Seems like it might depend on what I want my blog-reading experience to be.
    So, can anybody provide or point to a synopsis of the pros and cons of using an aggregator? Or should I just go and experiment?

  8. Or, maybe I could just, you know, read the linked post. *sigh*
    Well, if you have any opinions that contradict the Commissar, please…wait, what am I saying?!?

  9. As buggy as it kind of is, I use Feedreader because it has absolutley no frills. Works fabulously. I almost feel bad for just about not reading all those great sites that don’t have feeds, but this is so much more convenient.

  11. One extra benefit to bloglines (as opposed to a local aggregator) is that it releases you from the tyranny of a single machine.
    You can read your account from work and home on different boxes, and it remembers your state from both places.
    The downside is that bloglines does not update as frequently as a home aggregator.
    On the other hand, another upside is that bloglines does not update as frequently as a home aggregator.

  12. On the other hand, another upside is that bloglines does not update as frequently as a home aggregator.

    truer words…
    And I get the best of both worlds I dropped Feedreader for FeedDemon (which, with the lastest style sheet named Savvy is now perfect), and I’m experimenting with FeedOnFeeds.

  13. I’d like to know if anyone can recommend an RSS reader that will work under Win95 on a Pentium I with low RAM, because that’s what I’m stuck using for the time being. All the ones I’ve checked in the past on download.com said they wouldn’t work on Win95 (though I didn’t download and test that; I also am working under 33k dial-up for the indefinite future).

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