ten billion butterfly sneezes

For a while now, I’ve been bemoaning the state of my feed readers.Not that they don’t work, but that I have a different reader on each computer I own. I have NetNewsWire on the Mac, Sage on one laptop, RSSOwl on another machine. Each with its own set of feeds.There’s a huge duplication of feeds across this setup; but then each system has at least one feed unique to it.

The fix to all this is obvious; move to a web-based aggregator. I’ve looked at many free and not free web aggregators; for one reason or another, none of them appealed to me. Google Reader is widely used and praised. I don’t do any more business with Google than is absolutely necessary; I don’t trust them, and so I use the Google only for search.

My options then became clear; I had to host my own aggregator. Thanks to the fine folks at Gregarius, I am now the proud maintainer of my own web-based feed aggregator and reader. 24 hours into the effort, and all is well. Gregarius supports OPML import/export, so getting my feeds populated was a snap. There is a huge selection of themes to customize the output, and Gregarius also generates ts own feed of feeds, so I can have, Google Reader-like, a sidebar item for my current feeds if I so desire.

So, I’m loving life again, with a reader that I can tweak and mold to my own liking.

Thanks open source, and thanks, Gregarius.

-k-

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