Looking for a Newsreader

I read blogs and news via their site feeds using Bloglines (a web based newsreader). This has gone without a hitch for the year or so I've been using the service, but I have been thinking of switching to program that actually runs on my computer. Today, Bloglines stopped updating my feeds, inspiring me to search for an alternative newsreader. I downloaded a couple of free programs (Awasu and Vox Lite), but neither of them seem to be able to handle Atom feeds (which means that I can't read many Blogspot blogs). Does anyone know of a free newsreader that can handle Atom?

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If you read this site through a newsreader, I have an (important) announcement for you. There are two site feeds available: an RSS feed and an Atom feed. If you would like to receive the full site feed, subscribe to the Atom feed.

Strangly enough, I read this entry through BlogLines, which seems to be working for me. Maybe they had a momentary glitch?

Anyway, Wikipedia has a list of News Aggregators so you could try looking there.

By Jokermage (not verified) on 01 Apr 2006 #permalink

Which version of Awasu did you test? It's had support for Atom 0.3 for ages which is what Blogspot uses and the latest alpha handles Atom 1.0.

i read a few using the built-in newsreader in Mozilla's Thunderbird, which is useful as its my pop/imap/smtp client as well.

By Joe Shelby (not verified) on 02 Apr 2006 #permalink

Are you using a PC or a Mac? The best RSS reader is NetNewsWire for Mac only. Feedburner suggests FeedDemon for the PC.

I should have clarified that I'm on a Windows machine.

I use Onfolio, recently purchased by Microsoft and folded into their Windows Live Toolbar as a module. It works very nicely not only for news reading, but also for creating and maintaining collections of notes, documents, projects, etc. See http://www.onfolio.com

By Magdalena Donea (not verified) on 04 Apr 2006 #permalink