Fwd: Re: [ale] RSS reading software

[Jim Philips]

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Fooled again by the "reply to sender" setup.

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Subject: Re: [ale] RSS reading software
Date: Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:14 pm
From: Jim Philips <jcphil at mindspring.com>
To: David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>

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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:22 am, David Corbin wrote:
> I'm looking for recomendations for RSS reading software.  I'm not 100% sure
> what features I want.  In my mind, I can imaging the following fundamental
> approaches:
> 1) a web-based system that periodically polls a set of subscribed sites,
> and maintains a complete up-to-date list of "articles" that are available.
> 2) Another is a GUI-based client reader that  gives me the "here and now"
> choices for those subscribed sites.
> 3) a proxy that responds to the IMAP protocol
>
> Furthermore, I can imagine the additional following features being useful:
> * Distinguish between new stories and old
> * Keywords of interest (possibly by site)
> * Build knowledbase of articles that are of interest to me (Bayesian
> filtering)
> * Works like my mail reader :) (Kmail)
>
> I've never looked at RSS stuff, so maybe there's something I'm missing.
> Suggestions welcome.

I've been using Liferea:

http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

It doesn't have a lot of the dream features you're asking for in the second
part, but it's very stable and improving rapidly. The developer is also very
responsive to user requests. Right now, he uses the gtkhtml widget to render
Web pages within the application. We've been discussing the possible use of
mozembed, but he has some problems working with that.

There is also NewsMonster:

 http://www.newsmonster.org/

This one integrates into Mozilla. There is good and bad with this. I don't
like the fact that it uses Java and consumes tons of memory, but it has a
nice feature set and there is something to be said for building an RSS reader
right into the browser.
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