Comments on: I need a new feed reader

By: adam

adam — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:38:50 +0000

yeah, between google and bloglines, google is definately winning. they both mark articles as ‘read’ automatically, but where bloglines makes them dissappear, google just shows them greyed out if i come back to the same folder.

By: Sathya

Sathya — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:27:56 +0000

I had been on and off on couple of rss readers. But when I tried Google Reader , it really got me locked in. such a simple interface and the short cut keys (j,k, space etc) are great. U could even view the images (though I noticed this not working great with some wordpress blogs) and hear to audio from within the feed.

One disadvantage I noticed is that , there is no off line functionality, at least as of now.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:19:06 +0000

i’m not sure i have a real objection to bloglines, other than the shade of teal they’re using. it does have the same nagging thing, but it also has the ability to sort by time since. thing is, it shows every item ever in each feed, so i can’t just click on my categories, and read recent stuff.

By: lovelyloey

lovelyloey — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:26:48 +0000

I personally use Bloglines, one of the more basic ones around. But works for me. You could check it out.

By: adam

adam — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:15:00 +0000

By the time Sunday rolls around I am overwhelmed by guilt

see, that’s the thing. i hate feeling bad about not spending time on the internets. having 500 unread articles is meaningless, but it’s so nagging

i know what you mean about the friend surfer, but i use the hotkeys to get past them. the javascript expanding excerpt would be pretty useful on that page.