Here’s an interesting blog post describing lots of neat things you can do with RSS feeds: 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today.

Who doesn’t want to track drunk athletes?

Hi there, welcome to the Newshutch blog. You probably know by now that Newshutch is a web-based news feed reader. If Newshutch is your first feed reader, congratulations! Getting the information you care about is about to become much easier. You won’t have to repeatedly check your favorites to see what’s new; what’s new will just come to you.

If you already use another news reader why should you switch?

Reader run-around

There are plenty of free and excellent desktop newsreaders, but their flaw is that they are tied to the computer they are installed on. When I went back and forth between work and home computers, I couldn’t sync my feed list and read or unread status without laboriously exporting everything, carrying the data on a USB drive, and importing everything. If I didn’t do everything just right every time, the system broke down. I also had to keep both installations of my newsreader up to date, and using Windows at work and a Mac at home was not an option.

Yuck.

Into the breach

The obvious solution is a web based newsreader. Today there are dozens of them out there, but they all seem to have the same problems:

• Tiny, hard to read fonts.
• An overwhelming number of links and irrelevant features.
• As feeds are added the interface becomes noisier. Using your reader becomes a chore instead of fun.
• “Normal” people (non web developers) see the front page of other newsreaders and say “huh?”

With Newshutch we’ve done our best to solve these problems, but we can always do better. That’s why we’ll listen to you on this blog and in our user forums. Thanks for giving Newshutch a try, we think you’ll like it.