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Check out Yahoo Pipes. This under-appreciated tool can help you be more selective in the news you actually look at. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Images are often not included in RSS feeds, and if they are are then they are only shown once you are viewing an item.
When we are triaging which stories to read on a news/blog site, imagery plays an important as we scroll and select - and I don't think I've seen any RSS readers which show you a feed item's images at the story selection level.
The lack of site aesthetic/look and feel maybe less important to geeks but end-consumers also miss that when they are viewing news stories in a reader. In other-words, when I read CNN's feed in my reader I don't get any of CNN's site aesthetic.
Finally, don't forget comments and also the serendipity of suggested related content -- both of which are also missed out when we read stories in a news reader.
I use and love Google Reader. I use the List mode (as opposed to Expanded) and my work flow is the same whether I'm at my desktop, iPhone, iPad, or Blackberry. A handful of feeds I insist on reading everything, which means I hit J-J-J-J to get through them all. But most I merely skim the unread titles for things that look interesting, and when I'm done I hit Mark As Read to clean up the rest. I like how I can do this…
A friend recently launched http://feedingo.com/ which basically tries to make the user experience as friendly as possible. Pricing is the only problem, but after getting feedback he plans on trying to address that promptly (like $5/yr or something, for a non-free version)
Most RSS readers try to be something they're not: "it's like reading email", "it's like reading a magazine" etc. Feedingo is a web app with an interface that makes reading RSS as easy as possible.
It's true that the current pricing that I launched with needs to be changed, but sign up for the free version and try it out while im working on that.
I would say it's a combination of a number of reasons, some -- if not all -- relate to the technologies encapsulated in RSS. First, because RSS by design is meant to just be metadata, and because it's really hard to render HTML (especially those that are not well-formed) the readers typically have to jump through so many hoops to get things just working. Second, I think it's also because the RSS readers are typically…
I think I created a very nice feed reading experience with NewsBlur: http://www.newsblur.com . It shows the original site, allows you to read as you normally would, but keeps track of the stories you're scrolling past. It also allows you to filter stories based on what you like and dislike about them: words/phrases in the title, tags and categories, authors, and the publisher themselves. There is a slider that allows…
Only major problem so far is that I can't delete a feed (the link isn't working) or edit details.
Other than that, awesome job.
Feed Readers work best, and are much more realistic when you treat them like Twitter. You can follow 100+ people, but you don't expect to read every single tweet that they send out. If you miss a post, oh well, it's yesterday's news.
Just log into your reader of choice when you have free time, read the latest news, then go about your day guilt free.
plug: http://feedingo.com
It's here: http://newsyndicated.com if anybody is interested.
The only real "feature" of it is the ability to make a sort of "meta rss" feed so that you can share links that you have "liked" with your friends.