I never used Feedreader before for reading RSS and Atom feeds until when I had to give my talk on feedreading and RSS at the CASCON Hands-on Workshop on the Latest Technologies. I used to always use the feed reader from My Yahoo because I always use My Yahoo to read news. But the problem with web-based feed readers, even though they're ubiquitous in that I can get from any browser, is that when I click on the feed entry then I go to that on the web site. If I want to read another feed entry, I have to go back in the browser window to my list of feeds on My Yahoo. That kind of causes a bit of a nuisance.
However with Feedreader, even though I have to import my feeds, if I have lots of feeds, I just import the OPML file that I export from Bloglines. If you haven't used Bloglines, use it. It's great in that you can categorize and add all your feeds which I did with my Bloglines. Then all you have to do to use any feedreader is to import that OPML file to any feedreader. So, I did that with Feedreader on my laptop and on my computer at school. And with Feedreader, I see the posts just like e-mail messages, and I can scroll down the posts and the feeds. But here's the nice thing about Feedreader, it's an HTML-based reader so when I click on the post, it will load the actual HTML link in Feedreader on the bottom pane of the window. Sweet! And if I want to make a comment or post, I can do so right within Feedreader. So, this means I don't have to go to a web browser to make a post or comment. I can do everything within Feedreader. I really love that!
Just to let you know that Feedreader works only on Windows. But there are lots of feedreaders for other OSes. You can also use Sage as a feedreader for Firefox, although it doesn't show up as nice as Feedreader.
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My style is to right-click links in Bloglines so they open in a new tab (Firefox only, natch). Then you can either leave the tabs until the end, or middle-click to close them and return to bloglines.
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