I have to say I'm not really interested in RSS feeds. I never really understood the need for them, and felt it easier to go to various websites to get their content directly. My feeling is that I get more from going to the source so I can view the context the original content was in than by pulling the raw text from all these sources to see it in one place. I mean, who knows, perhaps there will be an article or some other content situated nearby that I might be interested that isn't in the feed itself.
Anyway! I made the bloglines account in an attempt to give them another chance, but I dont' really like it either. I listed a variety of feeds, but only half of them seem to be currently active. I ended up getting a few feeds from the New York Times as well as from the Palm Beach Post. In theory, this would be a good way to keep up with the news. Alas, whenever I click on my feed, in the right hand pane all the stories come up at once and are then considered read by Bloglines. I don't like that, and if I want to keep them, I have to click on each one individually to keep them new. Too much work!
So, I still don't like RSS. But, that's ok.
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I agree! I use RSS on lj for webcomics. I started doing it for site updates for my sites that don't update that often but that I will actually go to when they do update. I could use google reader too, but I am more of a "go-to-the-source" kinda person too. ^_^
Google Reader, from what I hear, has a much better implementation of this than bloglines. Give it a try Young James!
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