Blogrovr and Feedcrier

Platial and Blogrovr, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

I have recently given the Blogrover RSS plugin another try. Candidly, I did it because Blogrover's product team included me in a bundle of tech blogs they recommend, and that has led to a big spike in RSS subscriptions.

But I have subscribed to a number of feeds through the plugin, and I am starting to enjoy the 'coincidensity' of converging post jumping up when I land somewhere. The screenshot above shows two blog posts that talk about Platial appearing when I am on the Platial homepage.

I couple this with my ongoing use of Feedcrier, which serves up my RSS feed subscriptions via IM. I generally leave a chat session with Feedcrieer open wnever I am online. every few minutes, new posts trickle across my screen.

Somehow, the intersection of these tools suits my peripatetic style better than a stable fixed 'inbox'-metaphored RSS reader.

Comments

[Stephanie Booth]

I installed the BlogRvR plugin a couple of days back but deactivated it because it seemed to be messing with the size of my fonts in gReader, gMail, gCal.

Might give it another go though -- I do like the idea of being served context-relevant stuff from a limited number of sources I've selected.

[Marc A. Meyer]

Glad BlogRovR works for you, Stowe! We think that it enriches the conversation, but because the sources are the ones you [pick], it doesn't add noise.

We were not however able to afford the `e', so it's BlogRovR without one (they charge by the letter, don't you know). A couple more posts like this, though, and who knows we could buy another R and make it BlogRovRR (the pirate dog). :-)
Cheers,
Marc