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Poll: How do you use your news reader?

How do you use your news reader?  Do you leave it open all day?  How much time do you spend reading news?

http://forum.newsgator.com/Forum22-1.aspx

Posted by Nick Harris on June 26, 2008 at 04:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

ReadBurner adds NewsGator Clippings

I've written about NewsGator Clippings before here and how they're a cool way to share the things you find interesting with the rest of the world.  Today that got even better as ReadBurner has added support for NewsGator Clippings!  Now things you clip in NewsGator Inbox, NewsGator Toolbar, NewsGator Go, FeedDemon and NetNewsWire can be added to ReadBurner as well.

To share your clippings from Inbox:

1.  Share one of your clipping folders in Inbox (here's how) and copy the URL to your clipboard.
2.  Browse over to www.readburner.com
3.  Go to the "Add Feed" option on the right hand side of the ReadBurner menu bar, then select “NewsGator Clippings” and enter the URL of your clipping feed.

Posted by Nick Harris on June 23, 2008 at 03:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

NewsGator Widgets in the Wild

This morning I browsed over to one of the radio stations in town to listen to their live stream.  I realized I hadn't been there in a while and never checked out the page for the new afternoon host.  His page looked oddly familiar...

http://www.am760.net/pages/mario_solis-marich.html

Two NewsGator Editors Desk widgets!  Pretty cool :-)

Posted by Nick Harris on June 6, 2008 at 09:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Do people just not like change?

Denver NBC affiliate 9News updated their site over the weekend then ran a poll today asking what people thought.  So far its not looking good:

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Personally I like the updated look better than the old site, though it's not the greatest thing I've ever seen.  But it makes me wonder if people don't like it simply because its laid out different and they can't glance in the same place for headlines, or if there's something else.

Either way I wish Gannet would update their RSS feeds.  They have different content based on query string parameters, yet the name of each feed is always "KUSA - TV - " which is just annoying:

9News Local News: http://www.gannett-tv.com/tools/rss/?cid=222&sid=kusa&num=10
9News Business News: http://www.gannett-tv.com/tools/rss/?cid=75&sid=kusa&num=10

Posted by Nick Harris on June 2, 2008 at 04:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)