---
title: "BlogMatrix: RSS news reader with podcasting reception abilities."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/15/blogmatrix-rss-news-reader-with-podcasting-reception-abiliti.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/15/blogmatrix-rss-news-reader-with-podcasting-reception-abiliti.html"
published: "2004-10-15T23:10:00"
updated: "2004-10-15T23:10:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "David Janes sends word of his new RSS news reader: BlogMatrix . Here's what the site says. Notice that theres podcasting abilities in it as well. Interesting. ( What is podcasting? ) \" BlogMatrix introduces Jäger 1.6…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# BlogMatrix: RSS news reader with podcasting reception abilities.

By Roy Osherove October 15, 2004 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 15, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

David Janes sends word of his new RSS news reader: [BlogMatrix](http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/). Here's what the site says. Notice that theres podcasting abilities in it as well. Interesting. _([What is podcasting?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting))_

### _"[BlogMatrix introduces Jäger 1.6 for Windows](http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/weblog/archives/2004_10.shtml#003009)_

_BlogMatrix is please to announce that Jäger 1.6 for Windows is now available. It can be downloaded from_ [**_here_**](http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/install/)_. Jäger 1.6 contains many feature enhancements, minor bug fixes and three great new major features:_

- _Podcast Reception_
- _Bloglines Synchronization_
- _Universal Searching_

_**Podcast Reception**
BlogMatrix Jäger 1.6 is the first weblog reader to provide integrated Podcast reception. Podcasts are weblog attachments containing audio or video items, such as news items, MP3 music files or audio commentary. Jäger will automatically download these attachments and add them to the playlist of your choice on iTunes or on Windows Media Player._

_BlogMatrix Jäger 1.6 has the best features of any podcast reception tool out there, including entry filtering, choice of media players, scheduling control, plus all the other features that come along with Jäger, such as drag and drop subscriptions and OPML support._

_..."_

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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