One of my favourite apps on the Mac is NetNewsWire, which is an offline news aggregator. In short, it goes through the list of blogs and web sites that I read which support RSS or ATOM, and downloads whatever is in the feeds.
The offline aspect means that, apart from the odd image, I don't have to connect to the network to read any of the articles that have been downloaded, once my client has gone through it's list to check what's new. The net effect of offline is that I can very quickly scan through a much larger range of articles (eg. 500 in the time it would normally take to scan through 50 with a browser) to see what grabs my eye for further reading. The app is designed for bulk news reading.
Most people include the entire article in the RSS feed, but there are the odd sites that just publish the first paragraph, and then hope you will click to read the rest of the article in a web browser. This is quite irritating -- that first paragraph better capture my interest really well for me to click on through to the other side. Most of the time, even with semi-interesting first paragraphs, I still won't bother to click through if I feel I've got a good gist of what the article is about; it's too disruptive to my workflow.
Counting page hits is sooo 90's!
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