The Iron Yuppie

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Monday, August 15, 2005

RSS Readers

MSN has a new RSS reader.... I guess. I'm not sure what the hell this is, actually.

Filter.MSN.com

They also have one on Start.com. I'll tell you, though, I hate them all. All RSS readers. Nothing works. I have some requirements:

Let me read everything in order from page to page just by hitting the space bar
Combine the news stories together so you get a single page (less empty space... no need for an entire window for each story)
Allow ordering and grouping of blogs
Be super reliable about what I've read and what I haven't, and make that portable from work to home to mobile
Load the page in under 10 seconds

I was close with Bloglines... very close. And that's what I continue to use. But it fails on the last two really badly. And it really feels like it's getting worse. But I've tried everything else: Feedburner, RSS Bandit, NewzCrawler, NewsGator Online, NewsGator Outlook, you name it! It's funny because I didn't even care about blogs a couple of years ago, and since I've started having all this trouble, I feel practically disconnected. I promise, if someone comes along and solves this, I'll pay. Really!

posted by Iron Yuppie # 8/15/2005 10:39:00 PM

Comments:

I'm wondering if Bloglines lack of reliability about what you've read has more to do with bloggers changing and editing their post. Does a small edit count as a new 'post' in RSS?

# posted by

Chookster : August 16, 2005 5:08 AM

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