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Feedly. It’s like an RSS feed digest thingy.

So about six months ago I checked out Feedly after reading about it on some tech blog. Chances are, I read about it in Google Reader which I wrote about a while back.

Google Reader is great, but after seeing Feedly, I gotta admit I think it makes for a more digestible way for consuming news. It makes your feed content look almost like a newspaper or an online news site or magazine.

Feedly's built on Google Reader's API, so you need to be using Google Reader in order to use Feedly. But it uses more of the Google Reader features than even Google Reader does, or at least it displays them better. It takes popular articles and features them. It pulls from my Twitter feed. It is that huge firehose of information to which I subscribe on a daily basis rendered in the form of a tall, refreshing glass of water.

They also provide you with a dozen different ways of consuming this information. Cover mode is like an online magazine, providing compartmentalized summaries with a Popular section (based on Likes and Shares) and a Must Reads section (still trying to figure out how this is determined). Latest is for the more traditional types featuring a streaming inbox/list of the most recent items from sites to which you subscribe. Digest mode is a hybrid between the traditional Latest and Cover modes, featuring highlights from your favorite categories, but in a list (sort of like a newspaper). There's also Popular which features all the most popular news items across the entire web (not limited to what you're subscribed to). Buzz shows you what's most popular amongst your Google friends.

I've made it my homepage, so that when I come in every morning, I can consume current affairs in a more civilized fashion.

All in all, definitely worth checking out. Click on the image below to check out a lifesize version of "Digest" mode.