I decided to do a survey of a few of the more popular alternatives to Google Reader. These are my conclusions.
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Killing whitespace in the new “improved” Google Reader
I know that plenty of people have gripes about the new Google Reader interface. Those gripes revolve mostly around modifications to the social and sharing components. I tend to not use those, myself, opting to instead follow the trail of possible blogspam to the original source, then manually sharing that on social sites. No, my … Continue reading Killing whitespace in the new “improved” Google Reader
My RSS subscriptions
I got into a lunchtime discussion of RSS today. Apparently, one of my coworkers (hi, Helen!) had never really heard of RSS before. As we explained the concept to her, we started to share some of our favorite news sites, blogs, and other things with RSS feeds. I decided this might be of interest to … Continue reading My RSS subscriptions
Google RSS Webulation Thinger
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2005/10/The new Google RSS Reader is alright, but was really sluggish in the initial few hours. It kept refusing to import … Continue reading Google RSS Webulation Thinger