Tuesday, January 18, 2005
(1:08 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
RSS Reader
Do any of you guys use an RSS reader? What do you recommend? What features should I look for?UPDATE: I decided to give Bloglines a try. The H is O should note that their traffic will be drastically decreased now that I have a piece of software watching for new posts, thus rendering my thrice-daily visits unnecessary. I like to think that my actual readership is huge compared to my visits, since many would be reading using RSS readers; the thought is all the more comforting for being unverifiable.
Soon software will be developed to automatically blog, that is, to track down links that the author would probably blog about and create posts in the following format:
[$BlogAuthor] has written an [interesting/frightening/"surprising"] post about [the Bush Administration's/Rumsfeld's/Condi's] [malfeasance/malice/incompetence]. Here's an exerpt:[blockquote of "juicy" paragraph]Atrios may well be using a rudimentary "alpha testing" version of this software.
[Indeed/Read the whole thing/As they say, "read the whole thing"]