Yahoo
I should probably give some props to Yahoo. I have been using their rss reader for about 6 months now and I really like it. One cool thing is that you can make a link to allow people to add a feed from your site. So for the yahoos out there…here.
The actual feed page is pretty simple, but really, what is so difficult about listing rss feeds. IMO most readers try to do too much and fall down on one simple requirement. The purpose of a rss news reader, is to be more effecient then surfing around from site to site trying to find something worthwhile to read. You get your headlines and if there is an article that seems worthwhile, you click a link and go read it. Well it would seem to me that it makes the most sense then to have a web based rss reader. I just click what I want to read and it opens in a new tab. I usually go through all the feeds and open tabs for everything of interest, then go through one by one and…well…read them.
Note I do not give this endorsement lightly. Anyone who knows me knows I hate software. It usually never fits all my needy requirements. So when I say I find this highly usable, I mean It sucks a lot less then some other garbage I have tried.
I assume you have tried bloglines? I’m a fan of their service. I totally agree that the only good aggregator is a web aggregator. All that special software doesn’t make sense. It should stay in the browser.
I should have mentioned I did try blog lines a while back and didn’t like it (though the reason escapes me now). But yeah, any reasonable web interface should suffice.