I have tried quite a few RSS readers, including the ones built into Firefox, Thunderbird, and even IE 7. There are plenty of Open Source readers/aggregators out there, too. But for me, Blogbridge has all the bells and whistles I need.

I read a lot of blogs and news. I’ve made some pretty cool connections through blogging, and I like to keep up with what my colleagues are writing about out there in the big old blogosphere. For example, I just happened to stumble upon a great way to meet other bloggers and boost some traffic here at Michael Martine’s blog. 

Anyway, after trying readers like RSS Owl and Greatnews, which are both excellent RSS readers,  I found Blogbridge, and it changed the way I read blogs.

First of all, Blogbridge has something called "Smartfeed", which allows me to search multiple blogs and news feeds based on keywords that I enter. It does all the searching for me, and then pulls all the articles together in one place. You can have a similar list of news articles emailed to you by Google, but Blogbridge gets them all, where Google will give you the top 5 or 6.

Blogbridge is also very easy to use, even for me :-) . And, with their free sync service, you can back up your feeds so that if your computer dies, when you re-install Blogbridge, your feeds are right there waiting for you.

Finally, Blogbridge uses "Guides" to group your feeds into categories for easy organization. That way, if you want to just see what’s going on in the world of Retail Loss Prevention, you open that guide, and, hopefully, my blog will show up there ;-) .

Like they say, Blogbridge has super powers. You should check it out. It’s Open Source, meaning it’s free, and it does so much more than most other readers. This one is worth downloading. It’s a definite keeper.

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