Comments on: 1 Month with Google Reader

By: dnorman

dnorman — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:21:36 +0000

@Heather – the highlighting is great. I still miss that. And the photo album view, which is SOOOO much better for viewing Flickr feeds. Also, the star rating system works much better than GR’s “create a tag and call it 5-stars” system.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:18:27 +0000

D’Arcy,

I’ve been using GR for more than 6 months, but I gave blogbridge a try last night. I’m staying with GR, but there is one feature of blogbridge that was most appealing – I loved that I could put in keywords and have them highlighted in an article. That feature really makes it easy to focus on the items that are most important to me.

By: Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:30:55 +0000

Good report. Useful for those of us considering more Googlification.

I always read my feeds by category – folders, in Bloglines.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:00:41 +0000

You pretty much perfectly sum up my own experience with switching. The availability (and the performance at startup) is a big plus. The lack of proper OPML support (for subscribing and for exporting) and lack of support for authenticated feeds are the biggest problems for me!

By: dnorman

dnorman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:07:39 +0000

just pushed GR over 18,000 items in 30 days. 5 new “content” items, and about 90 photos…

By: dnorman

dnorman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:03:02 +0000

yeah… I keep checking my “manage tags” page to see if the “opml url” link has magically shown up next to all public tags. no luck so far…

I’ve never liked reading individual feeds, one at a time, or even categories of blogs. I first read all “5-star” feed items, then all “4-star” items, then “edublogs”, “technology”, “science”, etc… and then various photo feeds (I start with Kihei, then move up to Maui, then up to Hawaii, then back home to Calgary, my Flickr contacts, Interestingness, etc…) A Gallery view would be soooo nice for this, rather than endlessly scrolling through page after page of mostly empty whitespace to the right of thumbnail images…

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:25:40 +0000

You’ve certainly given it a fair run. The lack of a blogroll is insane; it would take but a few bits og Google brainwork to add it. My lazy way around has been:

(1) export OPML from Google
(2) Go to bloglines- delete everything
(3) import opml to bloglines

and use BL for my roll. Silly.

I’ve also noticed my feed reading approach has changed. I used to troll each feed )blog by blog);in GR I read a whole group in the foler structure I have “edtech”, “nmc feeds”, etc.