The RSS Aggregator Hunt

So I have too many sites to keep track of. And I've stopped using my last RSS reader, Google Reader, months ago due to lack of interest.

I guess I need to get back to some reading organisation and I need a RSS reader. So I need to take a look at a bunch of software other than Google Reader. I took at look the list of aggregators in the wiki page and looked for some best rss reader articles. Most of these articles are outdated though. Looks like most people have settled!

1) Desktop based readers. There are a lot of good non web based rss software. But I opted out of this category first thing. Mainly because if I have my rss on the desktop, I'll probably not read it because I can always read it. RSSOwl is a good offline reader at any rate.

2) FeedShow : Ugh, why did I go here? Such a ugly interface. I want a shiny artistic interface! OUT!

3) Newsgator: Hmm, it has a decent interface. Has folders, etc. Thats all I care about. But something is missing...Hmm...Maybe take a look at other software.

4) Bloglines: This was my first aggregator. Now that I go back and check on it, it's almost had no changes it feels like. Same interface for 2/3 years? Even with Ajax,etc coming in? Bye bloglines. 

5) Tiny Tiny RSS: Again, felt too outlook-ish. I don't like outlooks interface, regardless of how convienient it is. Turned me off.

6) Live.com: I started looking at their personalized homepage thing. Hey, I can have everything on one page! Had some high hopes on this one. But all that showed up on Opera was the header and the footer fused together and a lot of warnings about how ill lose my customisations if I navigate away.

7) Netvibes: This is another start page. I can check my mail and my rss and my chat, everything here! And what's more, it looks great! The only hang up is that it doesn't seem like a good idea if you have a lot of feeds. For me, its ok because I don't plan to follow too many feeds. And pages can help organise the rss. 

So that's that! I'll go and customise my page now!

Dry spell

I haven't blogged anything for quite a while. I attribute it mostly to not being very active in the social net-o-sphere off late. And that's mostly attributed to me trying to desperately get things(read Naabo, Engi, and my future) running. Seems like the more I try, the more it gets away from me.

I don't have writers block or anything. Actually, I have a lot of opinions about a lot of topics. It's just that I feel most people probably aren't interested in hearing them. That's mostly because my opinions are cynical, since I have strong black hat tendencies(ask de Bono). I can't help it, sorry. At any rate, I've decided to go ahead and post something. Perhaps something interesting will come out of it. Funnily all this is motivated by an anime characters' name "Revive Revival" and ND's speech.

2009 has been a pretty normal year. They always are. No resolutions ever work. Good thing I didn't have any. 

I haven't been reading many blogs either. Doesn't seem like there's been much activity on the "one degree of separation" level atleast. Sheki's post about Emotion Graphs was good. Shashi's blog quietly popped out of existence. Quite a few other interesting reads. Then there were the usual posts using ridiculous, superflous vocabulary and sentence structures to create "beautiful essays" that mean nothing.