This is a little self-indulgent, but if anyone is out there working for an RSS Reader company, perhaps you can develop these tools. Or if you know where these features might exist, let me know please.
1. I’d really like a way of using something like BlogLines offline, when I’m on planes or travelling. It would be a great opportunity to catch on some blog reading and I can’t. Ideally, this would be via Mobile, but on my lappy would be nearly as good.
So how about the RSS Reader caching maybe the last 5 or 10 stories in each unread blog?
I’d change my Reader for this and I can’t think of any other reason I might go through the hassle.
2. I’d also be really interested in a tool which tracked my readership of blogs from week to week, month to month and year to year. Like most of us blog consumers, I’m conscious that my blog reading habits change as time passes – quite radically over a year I think. It would be fascinating for me to quantify this.
Like many of us I think, I’ve been reading less A Listers and more and more in the tail, but it would be cool to be able to track this, even on the basis of something as primitive as the number of times I viewed a blog via my RSS Reader.
So that’s my little wish list. Normal service will resume shortly.
[tags]bloglines, rss reader, a lister, blog[/tags].
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