Kathleen Gilroy of the Otter Group writes about her experiences with BlogBridge, and her evaluation of other alternatives (yeah, yeah, I know there are lots of alternatives, but that’s what makes it fun, right?)

Here’s some of what she says:

“I had stopped using Blogbridge for a couple of months in order to try out the other readers I’ll reference here. But now that I’m back to Blogbridge, I still think it is the best in class desktop reader. And I think that desktop readers are preferable to web readers in that they can incorporate critical features like built in smart feeds and reading lists that you cannot build into web readers. Blogbridge has it all…”

And from there Kathleen goes on to list what she values most about BlogBridge:

• On Smartfeeds: ” … SmartFeeds: You can construct “smart feeds” from all of the major search engines: Google Blog search, Technorati, Amazon, Feedster, Conotea, and Findory. Moreover, you can build persistent searches around del.icio.us and Flickr tags. … Blogbridge does this by far better than any other reader …”
• On Reading Lists: “… a reading list is a dynamic collection of RSS feeds. As more and more information is managed by RSS, we will need tools to manage collections of feeds. Blogbridge is building those tools….”
• Integration: “… I use del.icio.us to tag and categorize everything. Now if I find something inside Blogbridge, I can tag things to my del.icio.us account from Blogbridge….”
• More on Integration: …”BlogBridge library. Another tool for building and finding feed collections. You can add collections, including my own Learning and Collaboration collection from inside Blogbridge…”

Read the whole post!