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iPhone and NetNewsWire Turn Margie Cohan into RSS Addict

Despite its geeky name, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) has a down-to earth and extremely useful purpose: compiling in one place the headlines of all of your favorite information sources and allowing you read / watch / listen to the content for each headline at the click of a mouse - or the tap of a finger.

Since I first started blogging (preaching) about RSS (aka news feeds or newsfeeds) in September of 2006, I haven't had much success getting converts. Even with my wife, Margie.

Until last weekend.

Previously, neither the impressive breadth and shallowness of my knowledge of world events nor my seemingly bottomless pit of recommendable YouTube videos — thanks almost entirely to my newsfeeds — could nudge Margie into the RSS world.

Enter the iPhone and NetNewsWire.

Last weekend I showed Margie my NetNewsWire iPhone application. She was sold. I helped her set up her (required and free) NewsgatorOnline feed reader account, and she was off and running.

Since I spend obscene amounts of time at my computer (and can pull up FeedDemon newsfeeds any time), I tend to use my iPhone newsfeed reader as a supplement: on the treadmill; in the car at stop lights, in store checkout lines.

Nowadays, Margie starts every morning with her iPhone newsfeeds. And she's addicted. Her iPhone newsfeeds have replaced her alarm clock's snooze button.

I can't wait for tomorrow morning, when she sees her name in the headlines of the nSiteful Blog feed...