Erik Barzeski (blog, Freshly Squeezed Software) is releasing a new MacOS X RSS reader / news aggregator into beta today. Erik has written some great software, so I'm excited to take a look at his new product.

Called Pulp Fiction (is there any way he'll get away with using that name?), it looks to be an interesting improvement on OS X RSS tools.

One terribly interesting thing it allows for is persistent storage of downloaded articles. Unlike some other readers, it appears that Pulp Fiction will store content on your local drive indefinitely. I didn't see any information about the storage format or APIs for access to the data, but the ability to index and search everything I've read over the past year is fascinating.

Pulp Fiction appears to do some of that indexing already, as it provides a Mail.app-like search interface to articles.

I can't wait to play with it.