by Rich Rousseau
7. February 2007 11:59
An email from fellow blogger and brother-in-law
Eric prompted me to checkout Google Reader for reading and managing all the blogs I subscribe to. After importing all 154 of my feeds, I sat back with a cup of coffee and started reading. I dug it...quite a bit. Google Reader has the usual google UI goodness. The seamless updating of different browser elements that's so shiny and Web 2.0-y.
I haven't played with the tagging yet, and I'm not sure what "Shared Items" are, but Google Reader has one killer piece of functionality that has already converted me...It only marks items you've actually read as "read". Bloglines is terrible about this. As soon as you click on a folder in bloglines, it assumes you've read all the posts within. It's a real pain to have to update items as "Keep New" individually in Bloglines. It's a backwards way of processing things. Google Reader updates each item as read once you've scrolled past it.
Because of this feature alone, I'm switching to Google Reader.
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