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What is your blog reading policy?

YAFLE picked up on something from Common Craft with What’s Your RSS Reading Strategy?. He uses Bloglines and scans about once a day. I’ve been meaning to respond since he posted, but have just written something similar on a local mailing list, so I have a starting point.

I use an aggregator (NewsGator). There is no sense in visiting each website individually to figure out whether they have posted something new, particularly with the number I am reading. This means that if a blog doesn’t have a web feed, it is highly unlikely that I will read it. In fact, there are no blogs today that I read on their website directly.

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Personally I’m using a stand alone software called Omea Reader. I prefer it because I can read my blog while I’m offline. The think I would like is a plugin to synchronize a blogline or newsgator account with it: it would be the best of the two worlds. I posted how I use this feed reader some weeks ago:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/2005/03/05.html#a101