Bloglines

After installing FireFox PR1 I noticed it's new Live Bookmarks feature and had a bit of a play. I thought it could be a useful way of cutting down the time I spend each evening going through the same old sites. I wasn't too impressed though. A bit too basic as all it gives you is the titles, you still need to click through each story individually to read them.

So then, following up a bloggers recommendation, I tried Sage which is more of a tradtional aggregator. This builds complete pages containing the new articles from each feed. It's still missing the feature I really want of having all the new articles on the same page - the way that the LJ Friends page works.

So now I've moved to Bloglines.  In fact this also doesn't offer complete aggregation but it does have the big advantage of being a web based service which means I dion't have to set it up on every machine I use. Also following on from recent news stories on Slashdot and elsewhere about the stress that news syndication is putting on sites I feel happier not adding to the strain by polling loads of sites every hour.

Update: Oops. Just realised that if you select a folder in Bloglines then it shows you all the updates below it, so selecting the root item gives all the new articles. Excellent.