There are too many RSS feed readers out there.

Trying to find the feed reader that is right for you is like finding a needle in a stack full of Ginsu knives. After weeks of wading through the slush, I finally settled on Google Reader, only to be disappointed when I added digg and watched as my little Google box was veritably flooded by stories from every ones favorite social news fire-hose.

I was going to give up and just settle for the tedium of wading through the RSS jungles in hopes that I might find something worth reading, when I tuned into the Web 2.0 show and listened to Josh and Chris’ (the dynamic duo who host How To Split An Atom) interview with the founders of News Hutch.

NewsHutch is the most elegant and easiest to use RSS reader I have run into. It is exactly what an AJAX based web-page should be. One column has the list of feeds you are subscribed to and the other has everything else. That’s it. You add your feeds, pick the blog you want to read and then you enjoy.

On top of the elegant design, they also offer basic support for importing feeds from other readers as well as categorizing your feeds. You can ‘mark as read’ entire batches of stories and set it so it only shows entries from a certain time span.

The only problem I have had with NewsHutch is that I wish there was a way to undo ‘mark as read’. Once you hit the button the story is gone forever. Otherwise, NewsHutch has finally made reading my RSS feeds fun again. If you are in the market for a feed reader, I highly suggest you give it a try.