Bloglines - Newspaper on Demand, but not too much

A long time ago I messed around with RSS subscription on a news aggregator that I downloaded to my mac. The result was I had 4000 news items coming in daily and instantly felt overwhelmed by the overload. After a week, I shut it off and never opened it again.

Bloglines is friendly for people with ADD because if there are 100 updates to a website since the last time you visited it, it will tell you. If you go there, it will instantly reset that number to zero, and give you the impression that you are all caught up -- which really, you are.

Depending on the blog, if you check your collection weekly, you can have zero-six posts. Some big league technorati blogs or newspapers will have quite a few more, but not everything will be read worthy past the first paragraph.

You can save entries as you go through to check back later, and you can go back at any time and look at all previous posts to the blog or rss source, or skip on ahead to the important things you do -- like live.