Back to NetNewsWire and Maybe Blogging More
With the news that NetNewsWire is now free I decided to download it and see if my ISP, Charter, is still crashing my cable modem through their firmware when I use a desktop feedreader. They are not, which further confirms my suspicion that they were at one point; both NetNewsWire Lite and Vienna crashed my cable modem consistently last fall.
Anyway, I had been using Google Reader, but I never found myself quite as productive with it as I am with a desktop feedreader. As a result, I read less blogs, and thus had less to blog about myself. Now that I’ve got NNW back in my dock I may be blogging a bit more again.
Tags Feedreaders, Blogging
February 13, 2008 at 4:37 pm
For feedaholics NNW is the business Kevin; it’s probably my “most used” app. I’ve tried various others (Safari, Newsfire, Vienna, Google Reader) but they don’t have NNW’s efficiency or features.
For occasional feed readers on OS X I’d recommend the RSS reader built-in to Apple’s Mail. My wife uses it to get her Lolcats fix and I think the “inbox” analogy with read-only email works really well for those who don’t know or care about web feeds.
It remains to be seen if reading more will necessarily get you writing more… it could prove inspiring—or distracting!
March 5, 2008 at 5:07 am
All talk and no action
March 5, 2008 at 8:15 am
In my defense I did say “maybe”.