Tag: RSS

So, I’m still partially using GoogleReader and hanging on as long as possible. Wired had a post up on Google’s reasoning behind it, and what they want us to use instead…

The answer is Google Now and Google+… but from what I read about those two – and know from experience with Google+, I am inclined to agree with Richard Dickson who posted the following in the comment section on the article.

“I don’t want to read what Google thinks I want to read. I want to read what I want to read. I used Google Reader as a way to check on all the sites I read without having to bookmark and visit every single one. I kept up with webcomics. And it did all that by me just clicking a button and subscribing, not by having to “teach” it and wading through recommendations I wasn’t really interested in.”

– Richard Dickson

The reason for why I don’t want to go Google+ or GoogleNow is the same reason for why I don’t follow the blogs/webcomics/whatnot on Facebook. Facebook as it is today (as opposed to when I started using it) only selects a small minutiae of what I want to read. That is both from friends I have added and from pages I have liked. They select what they think I want to read, instead of going by the logic that what I have added or liked *is* what I want to read. As a result, I am liking as few things as possible on Facebook, and adding them to an RSS reader instead – so that the things that are only on Facebook might be able to get through.

But I’m trying to get used to feedly. I really am.

My stats from the past 30 days…

From your 216 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 8,966 items, clicked 130 items, starred 21 items, and emailed 6 items.
Since 22 April 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items.

And that’s just the past 30 days, and I’ve cut down since the initial announcement.

Since I see a lot of people asking what GoogleReader is/was – it an RSS reader – a way to read from a multitude of information sources at your own time. It is (in my opinion) a far superior way of reading blogs, news, comics, and whatnot – simply for the fact that everything goes in one place. I don’t have to spend ages jumping from one website to another to check if they have updated.

I have also used it to save items for later. I don’t know why I haven’t just bookmarked them, but if I’d starred something in GoogleReader, and that website had later disappeared, I still would have the text from that post.

Now, I’m in the middle of transferring all the recipes I have starred to Pepperplate I don’t know why I haven’t done that earlier. (To speed it up, I’m currently bookmarking those recipes that don’t have as easy transfer, yet. I plan to import those later.)

My RSS reader of choice for the future… I’m trying out Feedly, with the Google Reader add-on.