Recommendations for rss/news reader

[Tom Metro]

David Kramer wrote:
> I actually prefer to view my RSS feeds like mail, so I use
> Thunderbird.

I tried that for a while, and found TB to be real slow and use gobs of 
memory once you had a few dozen feeds.

More importantly, the UI didn't lend itself to efficient skimming. There 
was no way to get an overview of what was in the feeds. You had to visit 
each and every feed individually, and there was no mechanism to queue 
articles you wanted to read later.

I also have my doubts whether you can make an effective feed reader 
outside a web browser. Feed reading typically leads to viewing 
additional web pages, bookmarking, and blogging - all of which is best 
handled by your chosen primary browser.

I recently ran across feedly (http://www.feedly.com/), which has a 
Firefox extension. I haven't tried it out yet, but the magazine-style 
layout it supports looks promising.

  -Tom

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