One of the blogs I read regularly is TechCrunch which profiles and reviews new Web 2.0 products and companies. (If at this point you’re totally bemused as to what the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is, I’d recommend having a read through this Wikipedia article explaining the source of the term.)
One posting that caught my eye this weekend was about Rojo, which seemed to provide all of the news feed aggregation features that I was getting from Bloglines, plus a whole load of tagging and relevance features that would allow me to pick up on other interesting articles from around the blogsphere.
Anyway, sign-up was free, and it was pretty trivial to import my subscriptions from Bloglines by exporting them as an OPML file. From my usage so far it is a much nicer way to browse through my various feeds, plus the categorisation using tags allows me to group relevant feeds with ease. It even includes the chance to vote for an article, so if you think a particular posting is good, it will be boosted up – the BBC News Online discussion forums operate a similar system, which is great for filtering through the hundreds of responses they often get.
I certainly think that I’ll be sticking with Rojo for a while, and if you use an online aggregator to read a large number of blogs, I’d recommend giving the site a look.
