Arbitrary Deranged Digressions

While I think the concepts behind Radio UserLand are great, it isn't the appropriate product for me.

I am looking for something that will primarily act as a RSS Feed Reader. I've found two good solutions for the Mac and one decent app for the PC (see other posts). What's missing is some cross-platform, client/server basis for the application, so that the state of my reading is updated on a server, and whatever particular machine I happen to be sitting in front of knows what the last thing I've seen was.

rss2email is proving disappointing, mainly because a number of feeds I read (scripting.com, Doc Searl's blog, etc) get updated very frequently - which is good - but the way I'm checking the feeds doesn't reflect this well. so the 'exceprt' is basically the whole page, which I then have to scan to see what changed.

Actually, I'm not sure that this is a factor of the sw I'm using. I think the only difference is that I get multiple "site changed" emails "too quickly"... Because my sw checks hourly for updates, and so I get 3 emails for the same site. Also sometimes the sw doesn't know why it thinks a page changed so I get the same posting showing up multiple times. Again, I don't know whether this is a valid bug or an issue with the sites themselves...

Sigh. As Seth would say, I have to roll my own. But I don't want to. :) Oh well.