Reveiw of Bloglines.com a News Aggregator

by: Kelsey D. Andersen

Internet Tool: news aggregator

Websites: bloglines.com

The internet tool that I choose to review is bloglines.com.  Bloglines.com is a free news aggregator and is capable of a wide variety of services related to blogs including: searching for blogs, organizing and viewing blogs utilizing news (RSS, Atom, etc.) feeds, and blog publishing.  This review will focus on the pros and cons of the news feed aspect and the organization of news feeds on bloglines.com. 

Pros

- Bloglines is well organized with easy to use tabs and sidebar information

- Very easy to update news feeds

- Clean and precise layout with limited unnecessary information such as ads/commercials

- Easy to organize news feeds

- Easy to understand instructions for organizing new feeds

- Intuitive/logical navigation

- Easy to understand instructions for utilizing all of the bloglines.com tools including: weather, news, RSS feeds, Atom Feeds, and podcasts

- Very simple to register

- Good server speed

- Free to users

Cons

- Blog search can be cumbersome

- Search does not filter repeating news feeds

- Difficult to look at previous feeds if you do not mark them as unread

- Blog must have recognized news feed to utilize to bloglines.com

I was attracted to bloglines.com because it is easy to use and free.  I have subscribed to 22 different news feeds and get most of my news, weather, and sports from various feeds through bloglines.com.

I would recommend bloglines.com to anybody that likes to read or keep up to date with more then one blog, news group, or forum.    Bloglines.com is one of best news aggregator and all-in-one blog website that I have found. The ease of use, navigation that utilizes tabs and sidebars, user friendly instructions, wide variety of blogging and news feed tools, simplicity of registration, and no cost makes bloglines.com appealing to wide variety of users.