WSJ on Newsreaders

Tom Weber (not Walt Mossberg) introduces Feed Readers and mass-blog reading to the audience in the latest Personal Technology column. He reviews FeedDemon, NewsGator, Oddpost and Bloglines which turns out to be his favorite based on the ability to read the same subscriptions across machines.

While he mentions the pending release of Safari RSS (coming in Tiger), it was disappointing to see that there was no mention of any actual software for the Mac. NetNewsWire is by far the most popular and mature… happens to be my reader of choice as well.

In a related note, I like the redesign of Bloglines… I’ve been trying to use it more just to keep tabs on things in the world of newsreaders. The mobile version is very slick for use on connected handhelds…

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