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.