rojo

If you read my blog regularly you’ll know that I’m a big Rojo fan, even after the first round of problems following the acquisition I still praised the reader. But now I’m just unhappy with Rojo, it’s down too much and some of the changes don’t really work for me. So savvy readers of jdamer.com which feed reader should I move to? I used Bloglines in the past and I like it because it just works, but I’m also a fan of the underdog. I don’t think the poll will show up in most readers (any?) so please come to the site and vote. Thanks.

I’m big into data, a numberphile perhaps, that’s just part of the reason Screenwerk may just be my favorite blog. Why aren’t you reading it? Bloglines says that there are 41 bloglines readers - assuming that’s nearly half (though personally I have more Rojo subscribers than anything) that’s not enough.

– Speaking of Rojo - the new version is great and worth the downtime over the weekend. I recommend signing up for it if you need a better reader.

I’ve started moving my feeds over to Rojo from Bloglines.  There’s nothing wrong with Bloglines, it’s just not as good for the publisher as Rojo is. Rojo is just a more complete platform than Bloglines.  By combining tagging and Rojo Mojo it’s much easier for readers to explore and find feeds outside of those that they are already reading.  Will I spend my day digging through Rojo?  Probably not, but what I will do is give all of my blog posts Mojo (works like Digg) so that others will make their way to my blog.  By combining the rss reader (which is good on its own) with the promotional tool, Rojo is really doing more for Bloggers than any other rss reader that I’ve tried (certainly more than bloglines).  That’s a pretty solid strategy for inducing self-promoting bloggers to switch from a stand alone rss reader. For anyone trying to promote anything in the “web2.0″ realm it would be foolish not to add to readership with usage of Rojo’s technologies.  Hopefully growth continues, but I really don’t think that should be a problem.