After years and years of manually checking each of my 75 or so favorite websites for updates I’ve decided to give an RSS aggregator a shot.
I’ve tried several in the past, namely NewsFire and NetNewsWire, but I’ve always felt like they robbed me of the ‘experience’ of visiting a website.
A lot of the sites I frequent are design related and naturally have quite exquisite designs (cf. Bartelme Design and Maniacal Rage, among others). Why would I want to forgo this pleasant viewing experience and have all the updates shown to me in a homogenized container? Mostly ‘cause its easier.
I’m currently using NetNewsWire Lite to track about 100 feeds which is, so far, working well. I credit most of my pleasant experience to its NewsGator synchronization (which actually works!), which is a must-have feature for someone with a home and work Mac or desktop and portable Mac.
