Comments on: RSS Readers on the PC: RSSOwl, SharpReader, Sage http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/ A blog by Joan Morris DiMicco discussing social software and group collaboration Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:11:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joan DiMicco http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Joan DiMicco Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:59:11 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/#comment-382 I think Bloglines is pretty good. I guess the main reason I am not drawn towards using it is that I would like to have the option to read blog content when I am offline. Admittedly I don't do that much and I do like the idea of reading my blogs on my phone, so maybe I should try to use it some. Some feel that Bloglines (or any online solution) is bad because you are making your company's internal RSS content public to the world. That is definitely an issue for me, but I'm not sure my stand-alone, off-line application isn't mining that data as well. Interface wise, Bloglines doesn't allow you to browse a list of post titles and pick and choose which ones to read. When you click on a blog, it shows you all of the posts and marks them all as read. I like to browse the titles and decide which ones are worth reading. And tomorrow, I might want to browse the list again and pick some new posts to read. In contemplating this topic so much, I've remembered a feature of NetNewsWire that I miss which none of these apps offer: a "flag" option where you can flag a post so that it never disappears from your reader. It is like a bookmark, but it is kept within the context of the blog you read it in. I think Bloglines is pretty good. I guess the main reason I am not drawn towards using it is that I would like to have the option to read blog content when I am offline. Admittedly I don’t do that much and I do like the idea of reading my blogs on my phone, so maybe I should try to use it some. Some feel that Bloglines (or any online solution) is bad because you are making your company’s internal RSS content public to the world. That is definitely an issue for me, but I’m not sure my stand-alone, off-line application isn’t mining that data as well.

Interface wise, Bloglines doesn’t allow you to browse a list of post titles and pick and choose which ones to read. When you click on a blog, it shows you all of the posts and marks them all as read. I like to browse the titles and decide which ones are worth reading. And tomorrow, I might want to browse the list again and pick some new posts to read.

In contemplating this topic so much, I’ve remembered a feature of NetNewsWire that I miss which none of these apps offer: a “flag” option where you can flag a post so that it never disappears from your reader. It is like a bookmark, but it is kept within the context of the blog you read it in.

]]> By: Josh http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Josh Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:51:31 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/#comment-380 Why not use a server-side reader like bloglines.com so your feeds are available from anywhere? For example, on your phone, on your laptop, or from a random location when you don't have your laptop with you? The network is the computer! Why not use a server-side reader like bloglines.com so your feeds are available from anywhere? For example, on
your phone, on your laptop, or from a random location when you don’t have your laptop with you? The network
is the computer!

]]> By: Joan DiMicco http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Joan DiMicco Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:12:55 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/#comment-379 I don't use it because Google's personalized page time sorts all of my feeds into one lump view, showing just the top unread posts. It doesn't tell me how many unread posts are found within each feed. I often have over 100 unread posts in some categories (say, tech news) and I don't bother to read those posts on mosts days. On the other hand, I have other categories of posts (say, friends and family) where I want to immediately see how many posts there are and selectively choose which of those posts to read. Google's solution is best if you are only following a couple feeds and you consider them to be of equal importance. I don’t use it because Google’s personalized page time sorts all of my feeds into one lump view, showing just the top unread posts. It doesn’t tell me how many unread posts are found within each feed. I often have over 100 unread posts in some categories (say, tech news) and I don’t bother to read those posts on mosts days. On the other hand, I have other categories of posts (say, friends and family) where I want to immediately see how many posts there are and selectively choose which of those posts to read. Google’s solution is best if you are only following a couple feeds and you consider them to be of equal importance.

]]> By: Jim Morris http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Jim Morris Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:25:27 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/01/29/rss-readers-rssowl-sharpreader-sage/#comment-378 Why don't you just use Google personalized page? Why don’t you just use Google personalized page?

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