I have found my RSS reader of choice and it is feed demon. It is just so easy to use, and I love the “auto discover” feature that keeps track of the feeds of some of the sites I visit as I’m browsing around, so I have a list I can go back to add new feeds at my leisure.
I can see why RSS cheerleader Steven “librarystuff” Cohen always seems to be saying “soandso should add a feed!”. Remembering to work through a list of bookmarks to check to see if some of the sites I like have updated just seems so antiquated. Unfortunately there are many sites that I like to visit every day that just don’t provide a feed. I need to look into what I can do to make feeds for myself for all the library or comics blogspot-type sites that I like to keep track of. Maybe that would be a good weekend project. I know how to party!
Two suggestions:
1. Steven would probably tell you to look into Radio. It has a feature called Stapler that allows you to build (I believe the correct term would actually be scrape) your own feeds off of other websites.
2. Myself, I use Watch That Page (http://watchthatpage.com) to keep an eye on feedless sites. I get an email every day with changes on any site that I’ve added to my account (tiny lil lib being a good example). There’s a bookmarklet to add pages, so it’s really easy.
Hope that’s helpful.
Ah, I didn’t realize that Stapler was a Radio thing. OK, that is probably not going to be an option for me.
Watchthatpage sounds like it would pretty much do what I want, even if I can’t get the info in my aggregator. I’ll check it out, thanks!