RSS Readers
Does anyone use an RSS Newsreader to go through their sites? I’ve tried before, and never really found any benefit to it. I know that’s odd, considering an RSS newsreader is designed to help simplify your browsing. I find that I am now visiting over two dozen blogs and sites first thing in the morning. I know some people who apparently have hundreds and hundreds.
I think I’m going to give Vienna another shot. I’ve used it before, it’s free and open-source. I’d like to get comfortable with it, instead of loading a dozen tabs or more at a time within Firefox, which tends to get annoyed and bog down with that many tabs it seems.
As a side note, I horked the default design for the journal here, so I downloaded and installed K2. It’s got a nice look, something I won’t flip out over leaving up for a bit as I work on my new layout. I like the layout I’ve got going, but I’m now second-guessing my logo/header. As always.
If you’re using Firefox. Try Sage, it’s an extension and loads a list of your feeds into a sidebar rather than tabs. I never use the live bookmarks. Sage is a good little reader… that said I tend to have sites I read only once a week in that, any sites I go to daily I just drag the favicon down to the personal toolbar, and if it’s a personalised one I can obliterate the text descrip in properties and still know which site it is. So my personal toolbar is just a bank of favicons.
I kinda miss looking at nice sites properly, so I tend to leave the suckier looking ones in the feed list, oh and the one’s with lots of entries like Slashdot / BBC / Wired News.
Downloaded Vienna the other day, but haven’t used it yet. I’d prefer it if Camino had a sage extension.