Twitter is a semi-useful way of discovering interesting news and information (once you sort through the mundane), but RSS feeds are still my preferred way of reading my favourite blogs.

First of all – not sure what RSS is all about? Check out this post on Desiring God (via What’s Best Next).

For a long time I just accessed my feeds via Google Reader in the Google Mobile App. However, I went out on the look out for other apps to keep up with my feeds, and the app I’ve been most impressed with is far and away Reeder. There’s lots of apps for this purpose (MobileRSS, Feedler, RSS Runner, News Rush, NewsRack, etc) and I’ve tried out quite a few of them, but Reeder takes the cake.

There’s lots to love about Reeder – it looks good, it’s fast and there’s lots of options for saving/sharing posts.

The best thing about the app is how easy it is to star items. Slide to the left and a post is ‘starred’. Slide to the right, and the star is removed (see below). This is such a handy feature because this is how I keep from being overwhelmed! I regularly scan through the feeds (there’s over a hundred in my collection!), and star the posts that look interesting. The rest I mark as read. This enables me to have a list of the items that I want to read later, without a backlog of thousands of unread posts which ends up just making me feel stressed! Reeder is a pleasure to use, and helps me stay on top of my feeds in a way I’ve not been able to do before.

Here’s another review of Reeder. Would anyone like to put in a challenge for a better RSS app for iPhone?!