{"id":310,"date":"2004-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/01\/02\/243\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T23:00:00","slug":"243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/01\/02\/243\/","title":{"rendered":"Which RSS reader should I use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still wondering what&#8217;s the best way to read weblogs and news. Today, it&#8217;s hard to find a website that doesn&#8217;t provide a RSS feed (although I&#8217;m missing one on <a href=\"http:\/\/entwickler.com\/\" title=\"entwickler.com\">entwickler.com<\/a>), so I just have to choose the right software that lets me read that feed. Sounds easy?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently testing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradsoft.com\/feeddemon\/index.asp\" title=\"Bradbury Software - FeedDemon RSS newsfeed Reader for Windows\">FeedDemon<\/a>, which is great Windows software, but I&#8217;d be paying a lot of money (25 \u20ac) for features I won&#8217;t use &#8211; Watches, News Bins, and the embedded browser (it&#8217;s an Internet Explorer, which I refuse to use because of its numerous security holes).<\/p>\n<p>Compared to FeedDemon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmonster.org\/\" title=\"NewsMonster\">NewsMonster<\/a> is quite ugly, handles the read\/unread flag less clever, and does not allow per-feed intervals for RSS fetching.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to look further, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>After all, I do sympathize with the server-side approach &#8211; not with RSS aggregators that create ugly HTML pages, but with the old NNTP newsgroup protocol that was specifically designed for distributing and reading news a very long time ago. Most e-mail clients (like Mozilla, which I&#8217;m using) have built-in support for newsgroups. Software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.methodize.org\/nntprss\/\" title=\"nntp\/\/rss\">nntp\/\/rss<\/a> does convert RSS to NNTP, but I&#8217;d rather have a PHP solution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still wondering what&#8217;s the best way to read weblogs and news. Today, it&#8217;s hard to find a website that doesn&#8217;t provide a RSS feed (although I&#8217;m missing one on entwickler.com), so I just have to choose the right software that lets me read that feed. Sounds easy? I&#8217;m currently testing FeedDemon, which is great Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}