I consider myself still a relative newbie to the RSS world. I scoured the net a few months ago looking for the best news aggregator for Windows what I came up with at the time was Sharpreader and Newsgator. Sharpreader is a free standalone client written in C#, hence the name. I like it, nice interface. Newsgator is NOT free, but I’ve been tempted to pay for it. What it does is grab your newsfeeds and put them into folders in Microsoft Outlook. Hey, I’m in Outlook all day anyway right? It’s a good fit.

The Scoblezier pointed out in his article t’other day a couple of other RSS news aggregators that I really like. Check out RSS Bandit and Bloglines.

RSS Bandit is a standalone client. Like Sharpreader, it’s a .NET application. Also like Sharpreader it’s got a nice interface. Note the funky “Monitoring System Event Logs” component! [screenshot]

Bloglines is a web service so you don’t install any software to your PC. The main benefit of this is that wherever you go, there you are–with your news. (Pardons to Buckaroo Banzai fans.) And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, there is an an optional tray icon notifier for nifty desktop integration.

Most of these tools nowadays can import and export your feeds using the OPML specification. This means you can play with one or several, all using the same set of feeds without a lot of manual data entry.