Time is valuable. Syndication feeds save time.

I used to have a large links page that I would go through and click on each for updates about 3-5x each day. This process took me between 10 minutes and an hour each time I went through. Many of these sites are weblogs with RSS feeds available, but it never occurred to me before recently that I can syndicate and read all of these sites from one source with a feed aggregator.

Opera has a built in feed reader that can automatically update the feeds on a given interval. This works great for me at work, but nowhere else because you apparently cannot export this list (even to another Opera client). Since school is starting up soon, I’d like to be able to check my feeds from home or school.

This led me to think that I should go for a RSS aggregator on the web. There are many available services already, but I’m somewhat turned off of the fact that some will be high quality at a price, or stricken with ads (or both?). I’m actually a little disgusted that someone would try to charge a periodic fee for feedreading, moreso than ads. This combined has led me to wanting to create a free web feed reader and syndication aggregator. I’ll be working on that as time comes my way, but I’m quite excited about it.