Rivers of Folders

I’m not sure why but some folks seem to get worked up over aggregator styles. Some prefer a river of news, some like to spend their time organizing feeds into a zillion little folders. To each their own. I enjoy the way that FeedDemon lets me do what I want, which is a mostly river-of-news approach with a few feeds in a “favorites” folder I check more often. Nick Bradbury talks more about it here. Ideally an aggregator will have the customization options to let one use it in whatever style they choose.

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Posted on:: Monday, July 17th, 2006 20:29

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Visual RSS - Avoiding the Overload : Fresh Brewed Every Morning Friday, July 28th, 2006 / 11:56

[...] Why isn”t there something out there like mindmapping for READING? Specifically why isn’t there something out there for reading RSS feeds - in a new and more powerful manner? Maybe not mindmapping, but please stop developing the same product over and over again. The ‘river of news’ and categorized reader layouts are taken! A feed reader that could help us immensly by eliminating the hurdle of initially establishing an intrinsically appropriate or relevant conceptual framework to work within would be groundbreaking! Somethig that could capture, structure, and shuffle information at our fingertips. There are not very many innovative RSS readers out there. Bloglines,Google, Newsgator, Flock, Thunderbird, GreatNews, FeedDemon, Netvibes, and all the rest areall the same. The best new innovator on the scene is newshutch a web-based RSS aggregator. However, newshutch isn”t really innovating when it comes to actually reading the feed. [...]

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