The Business Blog at Intuitive.com

Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains four weblogs: The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, Ask Dave Taylor, Dave On Film, and Attachment Parenting Blog. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

Yet another way to manage RSS/weblog reading: bloglines

My friend Bryan Hoff turned me on to something new and cool today: Bloglines. Sporting a clean and elegant interface, bloglines lets you read your RSS feeds (aka weblog subscriptions) via the Web rather than via a client-based application like NewsGator or NetNewsWire. Even better, you can allow other members of the bloglines community to access your subscriptions. And even better than that, you can then see who else subscribes to the same weblogs you're reading!

And so, "hello!" to the five other people on this new service who read this weblog, the three others who read Attachment Parenting, and the other person who reads Real Life Debt: The Weblog. Since no-one yet subscribes to Dave Taylor's Booktalk, I have this to say: check it out! And check out bloglines while you're at it too.

Posted by Dave Taylor at May 12, 2004 4:42 PM

Comments

Bloglines has been around for quite some time now. I have been using it for probably close to a year now and I'm sure it was around before that.

I found native clients like NewsGator to be annoying because if I wanted to read my RSS feeds at two locations, I would have to skip ones I have read before. With Bloglines, I can just breeze through whenever I want and not worry about if I have read an entry before or not.

Plus, Mark Fletcher and his group have been making improvements on a regular basis so that there are new features at least once a month. The latest being the number of references to a story you are looking at from other Blogs spidered by Bloglines.

I can't imagine ever using anything other than Bloglines ever again.

Posted by: Dave on May 13, 2004 11:54 AM

To the commenting Dave above - just to clarify something. :-) If you use Newsgator for Outlook with NewsGator Online Services, you can enable synchronization so you won't have to read the same content in multiple locations. So you can use multiple copies of Outlook, or you can use Outlook in one location and our browser-based interface in another.

Posted by: Greg Reinacker on May 13, 2004 5:12 PM

Thanks for adding your info, Greg. Greg's the genius behind Newsgator, and he's absolutely right: Newsgator is far beyond the myopic app + subscription list that most other RSS feeders are trapped in. Well worth checking out.

Posted by: Dave Taylor on May 13, 2004 9:52 PM

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