Posts tagged ‘rss’
Feed me, Seymour
January 31st, 2011 at 8:28 am by Dr. Drang
I love RSS. Not only does it let me zip through lots of stories in a short time, it usually makes the reading experience better by stripping away the non-story clutter found on most web pages and formatting the text with easy-to-read colors and fonts. I try to make the RSS feed of this blog…
Reeder
June 7th, 2010 at 6:18 am by Dr. Drang
Fed up with NetNewsWire, I got Reeder over a month ago, and it’s made RSS feed reading on the iPhone a pleasure. It’s advantages over NNW are: Syncing always works. Like every RSS reader nowadays, Reeder syncs online with Google Reader. Items that I’ve read on my iPhone are never in the unread list when…
Dumping MobileRSS
March 11th, 2010 at 9:48 pm by Dr. Drang
Based on an article surveying iPhone newsreaders1, I downloaded the free version of MobileRSS and began using it last week. Tonight I’m deleting it. It has some good points: Like many newsreaders now, it syncs with Google Reader, so you can do your feed reading on different devices and not have to think (much) about…
Headline Fallows
February 27th, 2010 at 9:27 pm by Dr. Drang
The Atlantic rolled out some big changes to its website a couple of days ago. Normally, I wouldn’t notice something like this, because even though I’m a regular reader of James Fallows’ blog, I almost never visit the site itself. As I do with all my favorite blogs, I subscribe to his RSS feed and…
