I'm abandoning Bloglines, an online Feed Aggregator where I followed my RSS/Subscription feeds. Though I prefer NetNewsWire Lite, there was no guarantee that I'd be following RSS feeds while in front of my Mac. Bloglines, being a web-based service, allowed me to check from any computer, but had trouble updating many feeds, couldn't find feeds, and stoped paying attention to some without further explanation. Even so, being able to have something that was mostly consistent across any computer I use is pretty great.
Now I'm using Google Reader, which is also web-based, works across all my computers, and is so far a simpler, more elegant UI to browse through. It also provides a widget for sidebar integration in my blog (Look! Over there!), allowing me to simply and easily propagate articles that are interesting into this blog's sidebar. There's no editing, publishing, or massaging of the data (and no easy way for me to add a Comment on it). On the other hand, it's all of one click in Google Reader. Doesn't get much easier than that.
AFAIK there's no way to get those to show up in the blog's RSS feed though. My Shared Items do have their own feed though! You can find it here: XML
Also, I've dropped my Pandora sidebar item, because it's not representative of what I'm listening to during the day, since it's currently being blocked for Japanese access. (*cries*)
Update: Subscription feed for my Google Reader Shared Links now added to sidebar.
Now I'm using Google Reader, which is also web-based, works across all my computers, and is so far a simpler, more elegant UI to browse through. It also provides a widget for sidebar integration in my blog (Look! Over there!), allowing me to simply and easily propagate articles that are interesting into this blog's sidebar. There's no editing, publishing, or massaging of the data (and no easy way for me to add a Comment on it). On the other hand, it's all of one click in Google Reader. Doesn't get much easier than that.
AFAIK there's no way to get those to show up in the blog's RSS feed though. My Shared Items do have their own feed though! You can find it here: XML
Also, I've dropped my Pandora sidebar item, because it's not representative of what I'm listening to during the day, since it's currently being blocked for Japanese access. (*cries*)
Update: Subscription feed for my Google Reader Shared Links now added to sidebar.
Unless yr already 100% settled on Google Reader, you might wanna also give Netvibes a look. It's a delight to use and super intuitive. Plus it's from France, no less, whatever that's worth to you -- but available in multiple languages.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll have a look-see.
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