Susan's Musings

RSS and Newsreaders

There are so many ways to use RSS - did you know that if you use IE7 you have a feed or newsreader built in to your browser? If you are using Firefox there are all kind of wonderful aggregate tools - you can use Live Bookmarks which is built into the browser or you can use some wonderful add on tools. Firefox literally has dozens of plugins to enhance your RSS or Newsfeed experience - I particularly like infoRSS and use it as my RSS ticker for Firefox on my home systems.

Another option besides using Google Reader - if you have an iGoogle page you can set RSS feeds to preview in your iGoogle page. This is really nice to use if you are using other Google services like email since all your Google content can show up in one personalized page. Yahoo has recently incorporated the same ability into your My Yahoo page - so whether you have Yahoo or Gmail try to personalize your page and set your favorite feeds to go there - it saves time and it is handy to go to one place for email and newsfeeds. It is the convenience of the old school newsgroups (which you usually read in your email client) but fancied up with Web 2.0 loveliness (graphics, active links, etc.)