I just use rockmelt as my browser and have all the news websites I care about on my edge. That way its all there when I want to see it and can see whenever anything is updated.
Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
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Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#62I use Reeder for Mac, which is an app for Google Reader. it uses Google Reader, but I don't use its web interface.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#63It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared. The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is t…
Shameless plug for more useful HN feeds: http://hnapp.com - filter posts by points, keywords, etc. and subscribe to the results by RSS.
Hey, then I can also put a link for http://jetsli.de here ;)
The next version will contain the possibility to include any rss feed and rank them to your personal needs. At the moment the first ten of your searches are used to boost articles if your are logged in.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#64It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared. The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is t…
Shameless plug for more useful HN feeds: http://hnapp.com - filter posts by points, keywords, etc. and subscribe to the results by RSS.
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#65I've been using Fever for (what I think is) a few years now and haven't looked back: http://feedafever.com/
Do you use the Hot / Sparks feature at all?
I also use fever, but that particular aspect of it doesn't seem to work for me -- so I just use it as a regular rss reader.
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Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#67Going to actual websites to consume news is like taking the subway to work instead of a private limo. Who wants to sift through 55 share buttons to find the content.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#68Yes, and one of my few wishes for chrome would be something like Firefox' (hidden) "open new windows as background tabs" preference, then using the 'v' key would become an order of magnitude more productive. That's my usual response for TL;DR blog posts. Browse through the whole list with your vi-keys, pick the ones that don't fit (or lose too much essential formatting) for other tabs, skim through the rest within th…
Try the Chrome extension "Google Reader Open entry in background tab":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lcimnckjiicikfpppc...
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#69Currently not too often. I go back and forth on RSS overall, and am sort of undecided.
Pro, versus normal webbrowsing: I don't end up doing the nervous-tic "reload to see if there's anything new on site A, then site B, then site C..." procrastination dance.
Cons, versus normal webbrowsing: 1) Everything gets put into a standardized layout, while I like the different kinds of design around the web, some of which aren't just aesthetic but include different paradigms (magazine-type versus forum-type versus link-sharing-type site layouts); 2) I end up feeling like I have this constant backlog of stuff to read, as if it were another email inbox, while it's easier to ignore old content when loading up a website.
My compromise is that for now I have only 4 blogs in my RSS feed, which update infrequently--- some of them not even more often than one post every 1-2 months. I have them there because they update infrequently enough that I'd forget to check, but I do want to see new posts when they arrive. Other sites I either check regularly in a browser, or I read whenever someone shares an interesting link to them, or whenever I remember, depending on the site.
Re: Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
#70I used to go through cycles reading RSS feeds and declaring RSS bankruptcy, but I've given up.
I need a priority queue RSS reader. Show me the N most "important" posts across all my feeds since I last visited. Importance would be calculated a number of ways:
* Prioritize posts from low volume feeds. I probably want to see every post from a friend who blogs once a month, but not every post from Engadget.
* Most favorited/liked/whatever, especially among my friends.
* Similar posts to things I've favorited/liked/whatever in the past.
* Manually tagging certain feeds as important.
Also, I have this problem other "streams" of information, like Twitter, and email (Gmail's Priority Inbox is a good start). Some people I follow post a lot of useless stuff, but I still follow them because they're friends or sometimes say interesting things.
Is there anything remotely like this out there?