I’ve had my Bloglines account for a while now. Whenever I hear of a new aggregator, I always go sign up and try it out for a little bit. So far, I haven’t found one that I like better the Bloglines.
1) Bloglines is quick. Clicking on anything and everything happens fast enough to keep me happy.
2) Bloglines is simple. The folder interface works very well for me. I like being able to select any individual feed, group of feeds, or even all feeds at once depending on what kind of mood I’m in. The layout is very basic and non-fancy. Saving posts is as easy as clicking the check box at the end of the post.
3) Bloglines is organized. In addition to being able to create folders, all of your feeds can be organized by drag-and-dropping them into the folder they belong. I just found out this morning that you can control-select multiple feeds and drag them all at once. Very slick.
4) Bloglines is online. This one is extremely important to me. I do a lot of my web reading while on break or lunch at work. I refuse to use a desktop aggregator. Online is the way for me. I much prefer that whenever/wherever I am connected to the internet to read the posts, I am also able to add the feed to my aggregator.
I have been playing with Rojo a bit recently and like a few of there features. The mojo system is a pretty good way to let the users help highlight the best things on the internet. The Rojo Top Stories section is a great way to find new feeds. I really don’t like how few options you have for sorting saved feeds which makes it even worse that you can’t create directories to group similar feeds together.
Rojo is good for reading the news, but not managing my special sites I want to keep track of. Bloglines is not as good at keeping track of what is new in the world, but it is the best for managing the feeds I want to keep track of.
If you want to see what I’m reading these days, here is my Bloglines feeds list.
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You are not alone; I’ve been an avid fan and user of Bloglines for over a year now, and, having tried every new online aggregator under the sun I still come back to BL within 7 days. Its simplicity is spot on in my opinion.
bloglines is limited to 200 items/feed. rojo isn’t, but both don’t do it for me. i like newsalloy, the whole thing is done by one man in the ukraine and is fantastic.
while rojo doesn’t have a tree-style directory sorting system, it does allow you to tag feed subscriptions and then sort by tags. This works great for organization if you use the tags like Gmail’s “labels.” I usually tag feeds with a broad topic term/phrase; that way I can do all my personal reading on that topic at once in chronological order or just find the particular feed on that topic that I’m looking for.
Andy, very good tip. I use tagging for a bunch of other sites, so I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to use it at Rojo.