I've found Bloglines the easiest to use among the free news readers. I'm recommending it for students and instructors who want to get started reading blogs and other rss feeds. Bloglines makes getting an account easy and subscribing to feeds very easy (you don't even need to know the full rss address).
Joe
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Here's information from the latest Bloglines Newsletter:
The Bloglines Update for 8/12/03
In this issue:
o We've Been Busy
o Have a Blog? Increase Your Readership
o Lockergnome!
o Help Us Improve Bloglines!
-- Welcome! --
Welcome to the latest update report for Bloglines. We periodically
send out these messages to update you, our users on new features
and services. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, edit
your Bloglines profile by going to http://www.bloglines.com/profile and change the 'Receive Newsletter' option to 'No'.
-- We've Been Busy --
Since our last Bloglines update message, we've added many new
features and options. Most were suggested by our users. Have an
idea on we can improve Bloglines? Tell us! See the end of this
message for more information.
Here is a list of just some of the features we've added in the
past couple of weeks:
-- Search
You can now search over 750,000 blog entries from over 9,000
blogs. Too many? You can also limit searches to blogs you
subscribe to. See http://www.bloglines.com/search
-- Improved Manage Subscriptions Screen
Managing subscriptions in Bloglines was too difficult. So we
re-worked the manage screen to make it easier to reorder
subscriptions and add folders. See http://www.bloglines.com/manage
-- Combined Views
Don't like clicking on individual subscriptions to view new
entries? Group several subscriptions in a folder. Then, you can
click on the folder and see all the new entries for the entire
folder. You can also click on the 'Subscriptions' link at the
top of the My Blogs page and see all the new items for all of
your subscriptions. To add folders and move subscriptions,
see http://www.bloglines.com/manage
-- Time Zones
Not everyone lives on the west coast. You can now configure
Bloglines to display times in your time zone. See
http://www.bloglines.com/profile for more information
-- Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet
It's easier than ever to subscribe to blogs with Bloglines.
We have a subscription bookmarklet that makes subscribing
to a blog as easy as a single click. See
http://www.bloglines.com/help/easysub
-- Have a Blog? Increase Your Readership --
We recently added several new Bloglines subscription buttons.
It is easy to include a subscription link to Bloglines on your blog.
Your readers will easily be able to stay current with your blog
without having to remember to visit it. The Bloglines crawler
includes the number of subscribers to your blog with each feed
request, so you will always know how many Bloglines subscribers
you have. See http://www.bloglines.com/about/subscribe for
step-by-step instructions.
-- Lockergnome --
Bloglines was recently featured as a Lockergnome Gnome Favorite.
Thanks guys! If you haven't noticed, Lockergnome has a great
RSS resource site, and you can subscribe to it using Bloglines.
See http://rss.lockergnome.com and to subscribe, see
http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://rss.lockergnome.com
-- Help us Improve Bloglines! --
We are continuing to upgrade and improve the Bloglines system. Our
best features have been from suggestions by our users. Know how we
can improve Bloglines? Tell us about it! Send us a message by
clicking on http://www.bloglines.com/contact
Thanks again for using Bloglines and tell a friend about us!
The Bloglines Team
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