What i'd really like

Minisweeper

Is a feed for my desktop so i can have new posts pop up when they come.

Teddy

You don't seem to have very much to do with your days, eh? But sure it would be a nice feature.

Minisweeper

hah. No not really, i'm at work and anything to avoid making me actually do something productive is much appreciated..

3stripe

Could someone do a Konfabulator or Dashboard widget that reads the atom feed?

NAG

sharpreader - reads RSS feeds

now, i have never heard of Atom feeds before but from what i gather, RSS feeds and Atom feeds seem pretty similar to me so afaik they are they same thing but with different names : \

(correct me if im wrong)

but sharpreader should do what you want mini

jonezy

dude write an app to do it!

3stripe

Or http://www.newsfirerss.com/ for those on a Mac is very nice. (from the developer of Acquistion)

matt

If there's an RSS feed I've missed it

schell

I also use NewsFire RSS, it's very nice. The other option would be NetNewsWire.

jesusphreak

There's always Google Desktop, which has many other advantages other than just being a feed reader for your desktop..

schell

"There's always Google Desktop"

...but not on the Mac

"which has many other advantages other than just being a feed reader for your desktop.."

...those advantages are already built into OSX 10.4 ;-P
(Spotlight, Safari RSS etc.)

FYI:
NewsFire
NetNewsWire
...these are quite good standalone newsreaders. despite the RSS support in Safari, Firefox, and Opera, the majority of the people still use a separate newsreader.

PS: this is also a nice one:
RSS Menu

stuart

I made a dashboard widget - its at my site, you'd just have to chenge the path to the RSS feed.