That old RSS thing again
As patient colleagues and Favorite Husband will attest, I do really love RSS feeds, believe they will largely govern how we receive information in useful ways in the future, and use every opportunity I get to pester hapless compatriots into installing RSS feed readers. Inevitably, the questions are (in this order): what is RSS? And: what RSS reader do you use?
Much has been written on both those questions, and I generally point people to the RSS wikipedia page and tell them I use FeedDemon (yours for only 29.95!). Arguably, having delivered the impassioned pitch that I do about RSS, more is needed than that. Alexandra Samuel has taken things a step further, and set up RSStocracy, complete with site buttons to guide the uninitiated to wisdom:
Perhaps even more useful is a very recent article (last week) by Ryan Stewart and Richard MacManus on Read/Write Web comparing rich RSS readers...if you're in the market for an RSS reader anytime in the next six months, take a look at this article. After that, well...probably out of date. And don't skip the comments at the bottom.