Over at About.com, Heinz rates his top 10 Windows News Aggregators. I didn’t read carefully enough, so I was looking for NetNewsWire, and was disappointed/surprised. Of course, NNW is only for MacOS, so it didn’t make the list.
I haven’t tried more than three on MacOS X.
- NetNewsWire – Written as if the developer was watching how people consume information, and understood that every extra keystroke (and I do mean keystroke) is cause for frustration. Slick, slick, slick.
- NetNewsWire Lite – Honestly, I used NNW Lite for months and months, and the only reason I upgraded to NNW was to show my gratitude for NNW Lite. I rarely use the blogging parts of NNW, and I haven’t found myself using any of the extra features of NNW.
- Radio Userland – I used it briefly for RSS feeds, and I still use it for blogging (pretty happily), but the web browser interface isn’t fast enough for volumes of information.
- All the others that I haven’t tried… and I’ve barely heard of (iBlog?).
Point being, everyone on MacOS X that I can think of uses NNW or NNW Lite. Please point me to worthy competitors, because I don’t know them. Doesn’t mean I’ll have time to try them, because I’ll be flipping through my 53 subscriptions in NNW (and I think that’s a low number from what I’m reading elsewhere).