![]() Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor’s site, where you can use the latest version of this Web-based software. If you value RSS, you can’t really go wrong with NewsBlur. Being a paid service, it’s completely free of ads, and is a joy to use. It’s responsive, and it makes it easy to manage large collections of subscriptions. I could go on listing features, but that would be missing the point: NewsBlur works. If you’re a heavy keyboard user, NewsBlur has you covered. You can pick the default text size and font type of the feed view, and whether or not it should show comments from other NewsBlur users who have shared the story on NewsBlur. Open the Firefox browser, go to a website, and then open a page you want to view in Reader View mode. You can also tell it exactly what services you want to use to share content with friends, so the interface isn’t cluttered with services you never use. Open Firefox and point it to a page you want to view. It also offers four different ways to view each story, and two screen layouts. NewsBlur supports many keyboard shortcuts, so you don’t have to keep reaching for the mouse. Training lets you upvote or downvote specific tags, authors, and title keywords. You can then filter your list of stories accordingly, whittling it down to just a handful of stories NewsBlur thinks you should read. In other words, it is easy to tell NewsBlur something like “I like stories by this author, but not about iOS”. NewsBlur will then pop up a dialog showing the story’s title, author, tags, and publisher, so you can upvote or downvote any of these attributes. RSS newsreaders, such as Reeder, Press, and. But where one reader dies, many thriveand tech companies have rushed to fill the void. Training is an active process: When you read a story you particularly like or dislike, click the Train button. Google Reader officially expires on Monday, July 1. ![]() This can quickly become overwhelming, but NewsBlur tries to help by letting you train it with the stories you like best and those you’d rather avoid. Subscribe to a dozen feeds, and you may have to contend with hundreds of new stories every day. One of the perennial problems of RSS is that there’s just so much of it. The interface is polished to a fully commercial level, and is both responsive and sophisticated. On your document’s screen, in Google Docs’ menu bar, click Edit > Find and Replace. It doesn’t feel like a single-person project, either. NewsBlur wasn’t developed as a reaction to Google Reader shutting down: The service has been around since 2009, so by the time the shutdown announcement came, it was a mature product. The irony is that these content curators need tools like RSS readers to make their job easier (hence the fact we offer the ability to add RSS feeds to your suggestions and even a whole OPML file – the Google Reader format you can use to export all your RSS organization from there).īut let’s not confuse the means with the end.NewsBlur’s three-pane interface takes advantage of modern-day wide screens. ![]() We need perspectives from human curators who will not only aggregate but also filter and share their insights at the same time. For example, to move to the previous heading, hold Ctrl + Alt and press p then h. We need curation which means more filtering but also more context and meaning. Press Ctrl + Alt + p (Windows, Chrome OS) or Ctrl + + p (Mac) followed by another key. But as I commented when Google announced the end of its reader, the world has changed fast since then. ![]() RSS readers have provided a content aggregation service that’s been extremely useful a few years ago. Yes, people at Feedly and other companies can do a great job filling the space – and as Sarah Perez rightly points out in this TechCrunch article, it’s not easy as Google Reader became a very sophisticated product.īut if Google decided to kill Google Reader, isn’t that a clear signal that this is not the way to discover content in the future?
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