Well, my testing of Google Reader went fine, but alas, nothing gives me the RSS joy of FeedDemon. Sure, I could run it inside a Parallels window, but that just seems silly.
Instead, I found the free, open-source solution, Vienna. It’s a very nice RSS reader and emulates a lot of the functionality I use in FeedDemon, which is my main goal here. I’ve only been using it this morning, but so far it seems perfect.
I recently started using a Mac. I am a huge consumer of RSS feeds and absolutely love Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon. However, I have been less impressed with NetNewsWire, NewsGator’s Mac feed reader. I tried NetNewsWire first because I can get a good discount as a current FeedDemon owner.
On the recommendation of Marcus, I have proceeded to try Google Reader. This post will grow over the next few days as I dig in.
My first impression is negative because when importing my OPML feed from FeedDemon, the folders, which I have spent lots of time organizing, were not retained. All the feeds were dumped alphabetically into a single folder.
As of the moment, I haven’t moved forward until I can see if this issue can be worked around.
Update: Well, the “Updated” view seems to have solved all the info overload that not having my folders seemed to create. Yes, you can create folders, but it seems better to only show me the feeds which I have updates. If I need to find something I read a while back, I can always do a search or just switch to the “All” view.
It’s growing on me.
Well, it’s official. CBS has canceled the only show I like on their entire network. The problem here was the midseason hiatus. When you have a show that is extremely serial, making those who are into it wait two months to continue the story is unacceptable.
The show started off strong. Good acting, nice direction, great storyline, but then just when people were really getting into the story, the show disappears. Of course, there is tons of great TV, so those same viewers moved on to other shows.
How does an executive not see this happening? I don’t work in TV, but I know enough about the sheep in America to know that if they don’t get what they want when they want, they will flock to another pasture.
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