Today, Shaun Inman humbly released the best RSS reader to date.

It’s called Fever.

Why am I so excited? Fever is the first news reader that’s considerate of you.

Contemporary RSS readers borrow heavily from the interface and language of email. Unread items in bold, unread count in red, two panes, and sorted by time. I’m horrible at managing email — piles of unread messages stress me out and waste my time. Why should reading my feeds do the same?

Fever re-thinks RSS. The interface doesn’t force me into un-bolding rituals, nor do I feel like I’m missing out on important news. Fever pulls RSS back from the brink of uselessness.

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