If you want to keep up with what's happening on the Internet you absolutely positively have to use a RSS reader.
I use NewsGator Outlook Edition to automatically have various Internet articles downloaded to an appropriate folder in my Outlook email program. It is exactly like receiving email only it is a post to a blog that I am following, a web page that has been updated, an entry in Wikipedia that has changed - whatever. If it is changed and I have subscribed to it via NewsGator, I get an 'email' in Outlook - automatically without me having to visit the web page. Very, very convenient and easy. Saves me a LOT of time. $19.95 and up
http://www.newsgator.com/home.aspx
FeedDemon is another program to automatically download RRS feeds into your POP3 email program. $29.95
http://www.feeddemon.com/
Don't want to have RSS feeds as email? Use Bloglines or NewsGator online to concentrate all of your RRS feeds into one web page. Free
http://www.bloglines.com/
http://www.newsgator.com/home.aspx
Brian Livingston has a good overview RSS readers at:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3521206
More info at Wikipedia:
RSS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
Blogs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
You NEED to setup an RSS reader..............
11-30-2005: Yahoo email supports RSS feeds.
An excellent introduction to RSS can be found at http://www.wizard-creek.com/rss/tutorial/
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I agree. With 50 new blogs being added to the Internet each MINUTE, keeping up with what's relevant needs some automation.
For a free Outlook RSS plugin, RSS Popper works flawlessly for me. It runs within Outlook 2003, has a small footprint, installs in seconds and allows you to add feeds automatically from Internet Explorer or manually in Outlook. Subscribed feeds arrive as an email and also can be viewed in an RSS folder, with a sub-folder separating each feed.
But my favorite is Sharp Reader, a desktop application. It is embarrasingly simple and full featured. And, like the other recommendations here, is free. Enter the URL of a site and it will discover all the RSS feeds. Click to add feed.
Among the things to like is the ease to see the new unread posts from all the subscriptions in one place. You can read the post in the appllication, including images (no ads), or click to see the complete website blog view. My personal #1 choice. You can get it at http://www.sharpreader.net/.
Day Tooley
http://blog.easystreet.com
Day:
Thanks for posting this.
Hard to keep up these days.
I have just set my Google custom news home page to display the RSS feed from the www.diggdot.us site.
DiggDot.us is a combination of Digg and Slashdot.
Dick
And I just looked at my home page and I see this on diggdot.us.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/21/new-companies-will-be-built-with-sse/
Wowee - RSS/SSE will really take off now.
Dick
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