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The other day I mentioned couple of different ways you can subscribe to your blogs, news, or any other RSS Feeds you have. Today, if you are a Mac user, you are getting a free present.
NetNewsWire RSS Reader is now FREE! Head over to:
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/Default.aspx and get yours today!
Thanks: TUAW
If you are following only a handful of blogs, going to their main page and simply reading up on what you’ve missed is most likely an easy solution.
On the other hand, if you are like me and follow more than a dozen different blogs, you’re way better off with an RSS reader.
What is RSS you might ask yourself.
RSS (formally “RDF Site Summary”, known colloquially as “Really Simple Syndication”) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. (quoting the WikiPedia)
So, you can use RSS feeds to subscribe to the Blogs, news headlines and podcasts and follow all of them in one location (the RSS reader of your choice). In most cases reading blogs via RSS is even better than reading them on the web directly. This is due the fact that most RSS feeds do not contain all those advertisements you see all over the blogs these days, and, they let you read the whole blog post at once. Most sites these days like to keep their look uncluttered and the only way to do that is by splitting the post at some point and requiring the user to click “Read more” links in order to see the whole post by itself. In RSS - all the information is right there where you want it: In front of you!
Finally we come to the main question: Which reader should you use? There are many, some are desktop based programs which run on your computer, other - web based applications. I personally prefer the latter since you can access those from wherever you are.
I use Google Reader. It has a very simplistic interface and it gets right to the point. You can subscribe to any number of blogs and whenever a new item is published you are immediately notified. Google Reader also offers ways for you to 
Star the articles (effectively bookmarking them for latter reading), and sending them to your friends via email. It also provides a way for you to tag them for easier finding later on, as well as to Share them with your friends. Simply great!
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