RSS Readers: An Update

The topic of RSS feeds for keeping up with the scientific literature has come up around here several times, especially since the demise of Google Reader. I've been trying several of these out, and wanted to report back. The Old Reader looked promising, but they seem to have had trouble dealing with the influx of users, leading to a notice a couple of months back that they were basically closing the service off to new users. This now seems to have been walked back: if others have found that they've settled things down, it's still definitely worth a look. I tried Feedly for a while, but couldn't stand the way that it dealt with graphical abstracts, and it seemed to hang on me a bit too often. So now I'm evaluating NewsBlur, and so far, it's working well, and doing what I want it to do. Keep in mind that I'm not a big social-share-this-story guy when it comes to RSS - in fact, since I use it for work, I really can't be. I just need a way to deal with the continual geyser of scientific publication.

Source: In the Pipeline - October 3, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: The Scientific Literature Source Type: blogs