Comments on: Switching from Bloglines

By: RSS4Lib

RSS4Lib — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:39:38 +0000

Bloglines Update…

There’s been a lot of discussion (see TechCrunch, What I Learned Today, and Law.Librarians, among others) about Bloglines and the problems they’ve been having. I noticed today that Bloglines has returned to the status quo ante — RSS4Lib’s subscribe…

By: walt crawford

walt crawford — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:18:23 +0000

I haven’t updated my post yet–but of the 43 feeds that were showing errors in Bloglines, something like 35 have come back to life, so it appears that Bloglines is, in fact, trying to correct the problems. (Hmm. If Techcrunch says it’s dead, maybe that’s another reason to stick with it.)

I’ll update my “Bloglines is having problems” post soon–and decommission a bunch of Google Reader subscriptions so I’m not getting the same posts twice.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:12:20 +0000

I don’t like the layout of the left column on Google Reader – it makes it hard to navigate when you have a lot of friends and a lot of blogs you’re reading. I want to read my blogs, not see my friends – friends should be secondary and I can’t customize that column and make it easier to read. Also, instead of giving me a real count of what I have to read it shows me 1000+ Lastly – and this may have changed – there is no way to share a public link to my subscriptions – just ways to share individual posts. I teach a lot of 2.0 classes and like to show people what I read so that they can copy my subscriptions and import them for themselves to start with (that’s how I started my reader list).

It’s mostly just interface issues – give me a customization option and I’d switch – but for now it’s Bloglines for me.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:57:10 +0000

why do you say bloglines is better? What does it do that you like better than GReader? I’m just curious