I only found out last night that Newshutch shut down in October already. I used them for a while in 2006 to 2007 - it was a very well designed app. (see Beautiful interface: Newshutch on Signal vs Noise.)
I stopped using them because I just stopped tracking blogs in general - I realized that I fell into this routine of consuming information all day, wasting my time and generally not doing anything myself. I was just procrastinating and tracking blogs became a big part of the problem. So I stopped using Newshutch and I immediately got this surge of productivity ;)
Anyway.. they had some great ideas and it is a shame to see them go to waste. I had insomnia last night and for some reason decided that I should write an RSS aggregator myself just because the remaining options suck so badly. Decided to mock up some HTML and CSS for the interface and this is it:
(yes - that’s a random Tango icon for the moment. It should ideally be a cute little green monster or something)
The left column is fixed and the right one scales and takes up the remaining space. The idea with the footer is that it might contain other links and text.
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