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Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Calvin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:36:19 -0000

I know I'm a little late commenting, but I love Google Reader. I think I'm addicted to it also. That's funny you mention the first Starbucks in Seattle. I have an aunt that used to work there.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Patrick — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:44:20 -0000

I like Google Reader, too, and keep coming back to it (although I would stick with Flock if Flock were the best browser on my laptop but it's not--Opera is).

Anyway, one thing I don't like about Google Reader is the "look" of it. I really like the little favicons beside feed but Google only shows the generic one.

Oh well, I guess that's not that big of a deal...lol.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

GregS — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:52:00 -0000

I love it too. Just as soon as they can provide robust feed search and sync my feeds with Feedemon online sync service or provide an offline reader for my mobile / offline reading needs, I'd switch to it full time.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Josh — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:52:46 -0000

To get the items all intermingled, make sure you only list the updated feeds. Then click on "All Items" in the upper left hand corner under "Home". Press the "U" to get an almost full screen (it gets rid of the list).

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Chris — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:47:33 -0000

Sorry about that... no idea why that happened twice.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:40:06 -0000

I use All Items. I want a river with all the feeds mixed together. I don't want to read feeds one by one anymore.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Jeff — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:29:35 -0000

In Bloglines I cruise through my feeds with 'j' and 's' (to go to the next feed).
In Google reader, it's 'j' and then Shift-n AND Shift-o to go to the next feed.

Other than All Items, is there a quicker way to speed through feed in Google Reader?

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Mike Procario — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:01:30 -0000

I also have completely switched to google reader. I panned the earlier version and settled on bloglines. I was happy with google reader, but when I discovered that j,j,j in list view would expand only the entry I was reading I was in heaven.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

deannie — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:41:30 -0000

One drawback to the Google reader that I discovered today was for blogs that require subscription creds, there is no place for that and therefore no feed...

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Marek — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:14:37 -0000

Robert - thanks, I had found that, but Onfolio sits there doing nothing with it. Having poked around a bit, maybe I have been imagining Atom support in Onfolio. I knew I was going to have to find an alternative at some point, but was hoping to put it off for longer - for most things Onfolio does exactly what I want it to.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:58:09 -0000

Marek: my link blog's feed is here: http://www.google.com/reade...

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Douglas Karr — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:37:40 -0000

If you'd like to share your starred items, you can on your site or through your public page, too. Go to Settings > Tags.

I have put the links to starred articles on my site and it has been generating quite a bit of traffic.

Doug

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Colin — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:01:54 -0000

Has the multi platform thing altered your perspective on email too? That is the reason that I use webmail these days.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Marek — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:26:15 -0000

Whatever its merits as a reader, there's a big drawback with Reader as a medium for publishing: for those of us using other tools (and I am sticking with Onfolio until I see a really compelling reason to change even though development is frozen), there is no way of subscribing. There is something which claims to be an Atom link in the HTML, but it comes up empty. The subscribe option within Reader seems to be about creating a closed system - which doesn't work for me.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Bruce Boughton — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:52:10 -0000

Also, I miss my Bloglines Subscribe to Feed bookmarklet. I tried the GR Greasemonkey script but I think my Greasemonkey install is fubarred. Oh well, will have to wait for FF2 on Tuesday for their RSS subscription stuff.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Bruce Boughton — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:50:39 -0000

I've switched from Bloglines to Google Reader recently. I used to think Bloglines was great, but then it started to niggle me. For example, it's frame based so I couldn't imbed it in a iframe on my start page I set up. Also, it's pretty darn ugly. On a whim, I tried out Google Reader and there's no way I'm going back. Much prettier interface, single frame, and river of news. It's also much more interesting to read feeds all intermingled rather than by category (Gen Dev, Web Design, F1, etc.) like I used to.

One thing: I'm using n and p to go forwards and back. Don't know why -- I tried it (as a Google Calendar user) and it works, even though it's listed as something else.

One thing I find annoying is v loads in a new window but I'm convinced I set FF to load new windows as new tabs. If possible, it'd be nice to have a t for load in new tab or something (or is this just my FF settings whacked!)

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Diego — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:26:43 -0000

More and more I am shifting away from the Mac and Windows clients I've been using and moving towards Google Reader.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Andrew Wardlaw — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:15:45 -0000

Has anyone noticed that when loading Google Reader that if you have the Skype phone number tagging thingy (the thing that finds phone numbers in sites), that reader cannot load. I get a nice Error on page from IE7 but when I de-activate the skype thing it works fine! - I do hope it's not just me!

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:22:27 -0000

I'm still SharpReadering it, Google Reader reminds me of a flow reader circa the CLHish Vi era...

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

zx spectrum — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:40:48 -0000

Hehehe is this PR to get on first suggested blogs?

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Mike — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:08:26 -0000

j and k are forward and back? Some dirty Google hackers are vi sympathizers ;)

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Ntwiga — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:30:23 -0000

Mihai Parparita at Google's Gmail team has made the reader one better with a script on this page that adds feeds as a folder in gmail.

All other aggregators are looking more and more like toast in the long term since feed reading is not function that requires a stand alone application.

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Jorgie — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:05:22 -0000

Bloglines gets my vote.

It's faster and the layout makes more sense to me. I think it even has an offline mode too, but I have not used it.

Oh, and it works great in Opera Mobile to!

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

Jeff O'Hara — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:51:23 -0000

I was an onfolio user for a long time, then Microsoft bought it out and doesn't look like they will be supporting firefox anymore. So I tried out rojo and bloglines, loved rojo except for no shortcuts so I switched to bloglines. Now since google readers upgrades it will take me a lot of convincing to switch from google reader. JJJ K JJJ :) Oh, and don't forget the M shortcut or the S shortcut.

-Jeff

Re: All the good stuff is on other blogs

officedoodles — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:46:39 -0000

Dude, that rocks thanks for the info!