What’s Your News Aggregator of Choice
As RSS becomes more common, and my news sources become more plentiful, I’m increasingly relying on a news aggregator for information management and consumption. For the uninitiated, here’s a definition I wrote a while back:
News aggregators (sometimes called RSS aggregators or news readers) are a new category of software that enables users to view RSS channels quickly and easily. A news aggregator, often hidden in your Windows taskbar, periodically checks each RSS channel to which you are subscribed to see if new news items have been published, and displays the results. Typically a news aggregator only shows the title and synopsis of a news item. By clicking on the item in your aggregator, you can then view the complete item in your Internet browser.
In a couple of years, this technology will be commonplace in Windows (in IE or Outlook, or both), but until then I’m using an aggregator. Thus far I’ve been using the free but simple SharpReader. It’s nothing special, but it gets the job done. I do feel like I’m missing some bells and whistles.
What aggregator are you using? Why? Here’s a list of the more common ones. My one requirement (for now) is that it be client-based, as opposed to Web-based. Unless a Web-based aggregator is really kick-ass…then I might conisder it.
Nick 
Joe 
John Keyea 