Re: popular newsreaders

For what it's worth, I've tried a couple of computer 
based systems (Newzcrawler and Amphetadesk), but 
neither worked as well as Bloglines.  Bob is correct in 
viewing them as info collectors.  As a practical matter, 
they are fast becoming my newspaper of choice.

On 8 Mar 2004 at 9:24, Kevin O'Keefe wrote:

> > Which are the popular newsreaders?  Are they primarily for personal
> > use - e.g. for putting a page of news together the way the Yahoo
> > page works?
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> I spoke in San Francisco last week and provided this list of news
> aggregators in order of their rating from a PC Magazine article.
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> Desktop:
> NetNewsWire (mac)
> FeedDemon 
> NewsGator
> SharpReader 
> Feedreader
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> Web based:
> Blogster.com
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> They are used by people who want to read their news via feeds they get
> from third parties whether a blog or Web site which syndicates its
> content via usually RSS or Atom.
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> Though one can post news via features in a news aggregator to one's
> blog or I supposed a site, I view them as 'info collectors' as opposed
> to 'info broadcasters.
> 
> Bob Ambrogi and others may have additional takes on this and I welcome
> their comment.
> 
> - Kevin
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> Kevin O¹Keefe 
> President, Seattle Blogworks, Inc.
> ŒBuilding blogs for lawyers¹
> http://seattleblogworks.com
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