Comments on: Google Reader just doesn’t do it for me

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:54:02 +0000

@Steve Crane – thats a great video! I see Tim Ferris is interviewing Scoble about how he goes through 600 feeds a day. Very interesting.

@Arné – I do know you can order your feeds in Google Reader, I was just thinking it would’ve been really cool if the order I had my feeds in Bloglines, was exported via the OPML file, so that when I imported it into Google Reader, the order was saved. No biggie though.

By: Arné

Arné — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:11:10 +0000

HI Jason,

Maybe something that can help you give it another wack, to order the different feed sources, you just ‘click and drag’ to the order in which you would like it to display.
With the other problem you have with the read/unread I can’t help you with.
So you now only have 1 reason for not trying it out again… ;-)

By: Steve Crane

Steve Crane — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:22:23 +0000

Have you seen the video of how Scoble powers through his many subscriptions?

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:04:22 +0000

Nope not at all, I just enjoy the integration that is offered, the option to share feeds with friends, the option to have Google Reader suggest similar feeds that one might like that one doesn’t already read.

I think I’ve just bought in to it. You have a point, it’s much of a muchness i suppose!

By: JBagley

JBagley — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:39:18 +0000

Not sure about that Nic. I think the main reason for me sticking to Bloglines is speed of use. I’m a mouse type of guy when it comes to the web, so using hotkeys doesn’t really do it for me. (desktop app, shortcut keys are the only way!)

Sure in Bloglines, there is a “mark all as read” button right at the top of my feeds, but I find less of a need to use it, as just clicking on a feed does the same. I don’t mind leaving the feeds that have 1 or 2 unreads as unread for a while. Its those high-content feeds that I give a clean at least once a week because who really has time to read them all!

Other than that, why should I use Google Reader of Bloglines? They both are RSS readers, both have much the same features, and both work damn well. Am I missing something?

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:42:38 +0000

Hmmm, Mr Bagley, it seems to me that you are suffering from a case of complacency.

It looks as if you are set in your ways and change is too much for you too handle.

I am a Google Reader user, for the last year I think or so. The reason I like everything you hate is because Google Reader forces me to clean out feeds that rack up 500 unreads. If I have that many unreads, it means that I don’t actually need them and should get rid of them.

In Google reader, the hot-keys are really helpful (try hitting spacebar).

I think you basically need to give it more than 10 days. They say that it takes 17 (or whatever number you’ve heard) days to break a habit, so stick with it.