% breakdown of RSS Reader by use. Zoundry to post
Stuart Brown runs through in whos-using-what-for-rss the following chart outlining how people are reading their RSS newsfeed: 
Personally I use a combination of Bloglines and GreatNews for reading, plus Zoundry for writing.
Will Humes provides another comprehensive review and says:
GreatNews is a very fast reader. You can scan thru articles quickly, and you have a choice between the 3-panel e-mail view and newspaper view (some nice choices in this viewing preference as well). GreatNews also works with Bloglines (for those who use this online reader as well) in such a way that both your subscriptions and read items are synchronized. GreatNews is fast and efficient and it also integrates seemlessly with the blogging tool I use as well: Zoundry. Snapfiles gives GreatNews five out of five stars (I concur with 10 out of 10 dancing fish), and goes on to add …
Another great review of GreatNews can be found at TipMonkies.
Zoundry is certainly slick.
- Zoundry make money by providing an easy way to make product affiliate references to e.g. Amazon and many other sites, and taking about a quarter of your profits.
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- What I really appreciate is that they don’t force any of that on me. If I want to just use their blog poster as a tool to get my postings out there then I can use it fully functional for free.
- I guess they know that sufficient people will get hooked such that once they want to put out affiliate links they will be happy to use their favourite blog posting software to do so. Great business model
- In my first couple of hours of use, the only thing I had to return to Wordpress’s interface for was to create and reorganize categories.
I’ve not managed to get continual syncing of Bloglines and GreatNews to work yet. Periodically I could manually kick it off but reality is that I won’t remember just before I find myself away from my laptop. I need it automated.
Bloglines can supposedly export your blogroll to Wordpress, so your blogroll on your blog is up to date. I’ve not had time to find and install the wp plugin to try that.
In short, I’ve learnt that both blogging and reading blogs from the desktop is supported by stable, solid products that work in conjunction with web-based ones.
November 25th, 2006 at 11:47 am
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November 25th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Thanks for the ping. I also use Zoundry and reviewed it not too long ago - http://faith2hope2love.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/zoundry-a-bloggers-best-friend/
My only qualm with GreatNews (which I discovered after my review) is that I can’t delete individual news items without having them reloaded by GreatNews when it refreshes my feeds.
I have also been using Windows Live Writer at times. I am loathe to use a Microsoft product whenever I can find an equivalent non-Microsoft one, but Live Writer is, in my opinion, the best blogging software out there now, with the ability to actually see what the post will look like on the blog page (web preview), a seemless integration with Flickr for posting pictures, as well as all the features that Zoundry has. I will be writing to Zoundry creators soon with the hope that they can integrate these features in their product.
I will be checking in our your blog from time to time. You have some interesting stuff here.
November 26th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
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February 21st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Great post. I was not familiar with this – I am using blogger.com and Google adsense. These are new to me, but your post led me to check it out – BLOGLINES is very user friendly; one thing I really like about bloglines is that I did not need to download something to my computer therefore I can have access to my feeds from just about any computer with internet connection. Zoundry is cool, though there is no spell check – so what I did is type my blog in MS word then paste it Zoundry. I am just beginning, so no profits coming in yet for me. Thanks for your wonderful post though, I had a good read and got something very useful from it. More power!
Adney Joe
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