Addicted to RSS
I checked out the Surfin’ Safari blog today and ended up at inessential.com, blog of the maker of NetNewsWire for MacOS X. I also grabbed TigerLaunch while I was there.
NetNewsWire looks like a newsreader or an email program, but instead, it reads blogs and other RSS newsfeeds. I set it up to read my blog and others, along with some of the defaults. Here’s a screenshot for anyone who doesn’t grok RSS, the way I didn’t until very recently. It’s a cool little app, in which you navigate between the panels with the tab key, through the blogs and entries with the up and down arrows, and open the original page in your default browser with the right arrow. It’s much simpler than browsing through all the pages individually, and cleaner than a friends page.
I’ve added a bunch of LJ blogs, whose RSS URLs look like this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/synaesthete7/rss. Not surprisingly, they’re pretty flakey with whether they provide summaries. MovableType does summaries by default in your index.rdf page. I’ve linked the RSS feed (the MT “syndicate” link) using one of the buttons from antipixel: 
You, too, can be an RSS addict.