Dave Winer Calls myEarthLink Reader "An Important Product"
myEarthLink Reader is getting attention among the tech savvy crowd today [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and we're delighted and humbled that Dave Winer, the blogging & RSS pioneer and evangelist, has called Reader an important product. You should read Dave's post, because he nails the idea behind our approach:
Your software should [...] find the new stuff since the last time you looked and show you that first.
Dave has been espousing the benefits of his "River of News" concept for years, and I'll readily credit his views as having influenced the direction of myEarthLink Reader. I also wouldn't dream of saying ours is the first or only news reader to take this approach (in 2006, that would be very foolish). Dave's software over the years, from Radio UserLand to his current NewsRiver aggregator, has implemented this approach.
Without getting into the debate over whether there is a best way to read aggregated news, we feel there is an opportunity to provide a simplified experience for our customer base. During prototyping, some of us skeptics of the "river" approach found it a more comfortable way to read, even for the techies among us. Eventually we stopped using our Bloglines or NetNewsWire applications completely.
I'd like to respond to Dave's UI critique:
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