Things 5—RSS and newsreaders

Since i'm way behind—too busy writing 23 Things exercises to actually do them—i'll just say here that RSS is genius. Bookmarks are fine for keeping a categorised directory of worthwhile sites (and mine could easily rival the Yellow Pages), but who regularly checks godnosehowmany of their bookmarked sites for updates? You have every intention, but you're preoccupied either with a handful of favourites or with searching for and adding even more to your already implausibly stuffed bookmarks file.

Bloglines is most useful in keeping track of news- and blog sites, as it lets you know whether and how many updates your chosen Web sites have posted since you last checked—all in one convenient place. Already using it to keep track of my assigned 23 Things participants' posts, and i've subscribed to the feeds from the SF Chronicle, Guardian, Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, and the Scoop in New Zealand.

So i'm sold...but a scrolling version of a newsreader would be even better. Headlines from media worldwide!