I wanted to take a minute to talk about the coolest RSS aggregator that I know of. That is Attensa for Outlook. With their most recent release, Attensa 2.1, this company really seems to get that people are busy and need easy ways to get and disseminate news.
Attensa works like most other readers in that you set up your RSS feeds and then within outlook they just start showing up as unread mail. Whats cool is that it supports tieing into the Windows Common Feed list. This lets me subscribe to RSS feeds from IE 7 and they will show up in my Attensa feed list. Further Attensa lets me tag the articles that I read as if I was tagging my own blog posts.
Before you start saying, "That's cool but Outlook 2007 has built in support for RSS", I'll tell you what makes the sale for me. It's really two fold. First, Attensa is FREE! Thats right, FREE! Second is that they have finally figured out how to get those of us who have metablog api blog engines to post a message directly to the blog.
Their solution? Allow me to publish the post via Windows Live Writer. This is pure genius if you ask me. Now when I click on the 'Publish" button(
) It will open the post that I am reading in Writer and allow me to add or edit it any way that I want. It also includes the original source information etc so that the original author gets the credit.
Check out Attensa, I am sure you will love it.