As part of my own ongoing (and often losing) battle to work more efficiently I’m experimenting with trying to read as many of the 100-plus blogs I try to follow using an RSS aggregator. For those readers who are still in the dark about this whole concept — and, despite the excitement in the blogosphere about RSS, an awful lot of people still know nothing about what it is — the idea is that, instead of calling up blog after blog in your Web browser to see what’s new, you have a program on your computer that periodically checks “feeds” from those blogs to find out if they’ve got new posts, and collects headlines from those that do so you can peruse them in one place (and click through to those you want to read).
I posted about my own preferences for RSS use recently, and got some helpful responses. Over the weekend, I took John Robb’s advice (thanks, John!) and installed a version of Radio on my laptop to use solely as an aggregator. I’ll keep reporting here on my experiences. So far I’m finding it helpful, though I’m noticing that certain blogs’ feeds are idiosyncratic in ways that I’m not finding helpful: For example, Josh Marshall’s doesn’t actually link to the story that’s being teased; and the feed from Radio Free Blogistan includes a brief headline but no excerpt from the post, making it harder to figure out what the post is about.
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