Re: [syndication] RSS aggregators for non-technical folk

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> One other thing. All the RSS to email approaches so far and quite a lot
> of the standalone aggregators use a three pane approach; feed, item,
> description. I've decided I really don't like this and prefer a two pane
> approach; Feed, item stream. In fact I do almost all my RSS reading in a
> single pane where the items of all my feeds are displayed. These are in
> reverse time order and inevitably new items from individual feeds get
> grouped because I'm fetching feeds sequentially.

Sort of like how IE's channel manager shows them.  The feeds are on a sidebar
and can be hierarchically collapsed/expanded.  The items themselves appear in
the display pane.  But, like most readers, the items are grouped by feed and in
the feed's order.  They're not lumped together in a chronological view.
Newzcrawler supports making what it calls a "newspaper" from feeds.  Amphetadesk
also uses the chronological view.

It's apparent that one view is style is not enough.  The audience isn't split on
preferring one /over/ the other.  At least not on a full-time basis.  There
seems to be a desire to go easily back and forth between date ordered per-feed
and per-group.

-Bill Kearney