Good write-up on the faults of RSS readers in today’s market of microblogging and following. News readers (and one might say by extension feeds) are becoming less relevant and few seem interested in doing anything about it.
A nice demo of a News Reader built to look like a newspaper. It is funny I designed something similar over the holiday break. Mine is a bit different, but damn this looks good.
Recently I’ve been moving my sites like Six Sites and my blog off of Tumblr and on to Chyrp. But what is missing from the switch is my Tumblr Dashboard, which allows me to “follow” other Tumblr sites. While I could certainly still use the Tumblr Dashboard just for this view, I’ve been playing with creating my own, that allows me to aggregate not just Tumblr sites, but any site I wish.
While the votes so far overwhelming point to building a newsreader, several people have mentioned that Shaun Inman is currently working on a newsreader himself, already in beta.
I’ve been thinking a lot about RSS Readers lately. I’ve always been partial to desktop newsreaders like Newsfire, but the allure of the multi-context flexibility of online readers like Google Reader has found me thinking about switching camps.