I knew I was missing something! For some time I've had this feeling that everyone was enjoying some way of getting interesting news that I wasn't aware of... Now I know it was true... :-)

I've, at last, discovered the joy of RSS syndication. This is a revolution for me. I was used to opening my browser every morning and scanning my favorite sites... No longer. I'm now using FeedReader, a very nice windows application that automatically polls your favorite RSS feeds and displays them in a nice manner.

The other nice features are

• automatic pop up notification when news arrive
• automatic scans for news every N minutes
• start automatically upon windows start up in the systray
• integrated browser (IE) for easy navigation

To get you started, here is my list of subscriptions (FeedReader format). Drop this file in your Documents and Settings/yourusername/Application Data/FeedReader directory or simply merge it with your existing subscription file.

Update:: I've just discovered that there are some other very nice RSS feed readers (I haven't tried them yet though): Syndirella and SharpReader.

Update:: Thanks to Scott Stirtling for the best RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory he's seen.