Banal Minutiae

I thought I’d give a quick update of my experience with Bloglines. As I said yesterday, I need to move away from an offline reader, and migrate to an online solution. I’ve found two, Bloglines and Newsgator. I talked about Newsgator yesterday, and some of it’s limitations. I forgot to mention one of it’s strengths: if you have Feedburner, their offline reader tool, you can synchronize your feeds across multiple computers. Nice.

However, as I said, the limitation of 40 new articles is pretty crippling. I’m not sure If there is a workaround or not, but I haven’t found one yet.

That said, I decided to evaluated Bloglines, which is a similar aggregator service, with the slight difference that offer a blog host as well as two different features: clippings and playlists. I’m not going to talk about the clippings and playlists features, since I haven’t used either one yet. Perhaps later.

The blog feature is a basic blog, doesn’t seem like anything special, no templates, etc… Since I use WordPress, I’m not really interested.

What I’m really interested in is the RSS aggregator feature. This works great. It doesn’t seem to have any of the limitations that plague Newsgator. I think we may have a winner. Right now, I don’t have any negatives.

I’ll do an update later with more details.