I’ve never liked RSS feeds, or found them useful in any way.

But since so many like them so much, I thought I’d give them a shot. There’s actually lots of sites which offer their content in form of RSS feeds, some sites just like to hide it :).

I started by downloading FeedReader.
Cool program, but understands nothing about UTF-8 encoding or RSS dates. At first I thought there might be something wrong with Serendipity, but it turns out it’s just FeedReader that’s b0rked.

So Garvin recommended RSSBandit, and that is one cool program. It does require the .NET 1.1 Framework (gah), but it has some awesome features. Like uploading your list of feeds to an FTP server, so you always have a backup and an easy way of downloading the list again. Very handy if you want to sync between home and work in one click – and it can detect comments to each blogentry, that’s sweet.
I would like a little finetuning, like like it forces you to use the IE rendering engine – enough said? But overall a great program, which does what you want it to, and nothing more.