yeah, i’ve seen
netnewswire

users in my referer logs. quiet a few of them, which is impressive
considering it hasn’t been around that long. and i’ve seen the rss
reader “in action” and admired the 3-pane layout from afar. but
until today, i hadn’t bothered to download it and give it a spin.

what a nice, nice piece of software. it immediately blows away my
prejudice that somehow rss news readers “belong” in the browser.
you can browse 3-pane style and toggle a preference to view
aggregated items. smooth. i’m just guessing, but i suspect that
since
blogrolling.com

spits out
opml

, you should be able to immediately import your
blogrolling

blogroll into
netnewswire

. too bad
blogrolling.com

doesn’t import
opml

to complete the circle.

to make a good thing better,
brent mentions

that netnewswire will soon support drag-and-drop grouping of feeds.
hopefully these groups will be available via the
opml

export that’s available. if so, i could then parse that file to
produce the “grouped” blogroll that you see over to your right.
alternatively,
blogrolling.com

could support importing of “grouped” opml feeds. doubly
alternatively, i could try to hack “groups” into
amphetadesk

, which already stores subscribed channels in a format “based on”
opml

. hmmm.

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