for years i've gotten 70+% of my news from RSS feeds (nowadays, another 15%
from Twitter, for all its faults); Vienna is not bad, i am gradually moving
some feeds over to it from NetNewsWire which i no longer trust; Vienna is under
active development, and is pretty stable for me
Thunderbird, surprise surprise, also does an okay job of mailbox-style feed
reading
on an upcoming 10 day trip (iPad, no computer), i'm going to be trying out
Feedly, but it took several tries to get it to authenticate with Google Reader;
Feedly promises a replacement for Google Reader's syncing API, which is
promising, but i am in the camp that thinks having a proprietary service
syncing your feeds is not a good long term strategy (unless you both trust and
pay them); that is why i'm strongly considering building myself a river of news:
<http://scripting.com/stories/2012/05/07/riverOfNewsFtw.html>
i have a lot of respect for Dave Winer, but i don't always agree with his
methods; his ways is okay - free for a year if you haven't used EC2 before -
but after that it will be $3/day! i think i could build a pretty good river on
Drupal using cheap shared hosting; i think i could also make it "mailbox-style"
so that things would have a "read" flag (Winer dislikes this approach)
whatever you do, stay away from NetNewsWire - i'm weaning myself off of it as
there has been almost no development for the last few years, and it has some
long standing bugs; perhaps the market for RSS readers will pick up with Google
Reader's demise and give the NetNewsWire a shot in the arm, but i really don't
trust the outfit that owns it now\
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