I came across FM RadioStation, created by SocialDynamX, via an entry in The Shifted Librarian's blog. FM RadioStation enhances the Radio Userland blogging experience by providing a better interface for news aggregation (reading), publishing (writing blog entries with a spellchecker), and browsing. The Browse feature is very interesting because it incorporates multiple browser windows a la Mozilla and Opera-style. You can also conveniently interact with your Radio Userland software settings. Interestingly enough, you can also print your individual blog entries prior to publishing. The only caveat I can see at the moment is that you are forced to Publish a blog entry. There is no option to only Post the entry (posting does not publish it for the world to see).

This is truly One Cool Tool for Radio Userland bloggers! Thanks Jenny Levine and SocialDynamX for making the Radio Userland experience even more awesome and enjoyable.

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Extend Your Information Seeking Skills With Newsfeeds

"Many people no longer receive a daily newspaper, or even buy one on the way to work. There is more news and more information being fed daily online than a newspaper could hope to print. However, those skills you used each morning for maybe twenty years, scanning the front page just before you race out to work, are still needed, and perhaps need to be refined and updated.

To experience more on the topic of this article you should download the newset of the bunch of Newsreaders and deliver news from Newsfeeds minute-by-minute during your day. No, this is not just your local, national or international newspapers participating; often you can have fed to you new information from weblogs, news sites, or whatever other site you like to choose. Effectively mix your own news.

Start here by downloading the new Australian built Awasu Personal Edition 1.0 (yes, it sounds Japanese, but I can assure you Awasu is an Australian-built product.) I have downloaded and tested Syndirella, NewzCrawler, AmphetaDesk, FeedReader, Userland Radio, Headline Viewer, WildGrape, and NewsGator. From this field, I would choose Awasu any day even though it is the newest of what they call the RSS Newsreaders out there." [Microdoc Info Seeker News]

I'm not familiar with Awasu, so it's another one to try. More and more people are figuring out the benefits of RSS news aggregators. If you're not reading this in an aggregator, you should try it and see for yourself.

7:33:15 PM    comment []  Google It!