Thoughts on Google Reader
So today I switched to Google Reader. My husband has been raving about it - and a bunch of librarian buddies were using it at CIL. Here are my first impressions.
- I can’t share my subscription list - just individual posts (unless someone tells me otherwise)
- I can’t widen the left column to see full titles and number of new posts (and I can’t scroll left to right either)
- sometimes I don’t want to scroll - sometimes I can see everything that is new on one screen - but if I don’t scroll things aren’t marked new. I know I can change that option - but then I’m back where I was with Bloglines.
So - is the change worth it? I don’t know - I’ll stick to it for a bit, but right now I’m getting annoyed at little things that I was used to before.
April 20th, 2007 20:15
You can share tags (and their referents). That should be slightly more than individual posts, assuming you tag stuff. If you can auto-tag separate feeds, then it’s equivalent capability.
Sharing FAQ:
http://www.google.com/help/reader/sharing.html
I don’t know, since I don’t use Reader, just going on the documentation. I’m still hanging on on my Google “Personalized Homepage” where your RSS lands on in my lower right column.
April 21st, 2007 06:13
I did share my tags - and it looks like my feeds are tagged - but when I view my shared page there is nothing there - so I thought maybe I had to share individual items.
May 15th, 2007 19:40
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