I love Google Reader, but I will also acknowledge that there are some UI things that are just plain better using a client application designed to run on a particular operating system. That’s why I’ve spent time with FeedDemon in the past (but ultimately went back to Google Reader for their mobile experience).
Last night at the Portland Web Innovators gathering, I had a conversation with Reid about aggregators, specifically mentioning it would be great to have a fat client app that was able to sync with Google Reader.
Today, I see that Dare Obasanjo announced Google Reader sync support in a soon-to-be-released version of RSS Bandit. I can’t wait to check this out. In the comments on his post, he notes the sync will include “mark as read” status as well as sharing – share an item via RSS Bandit, and it’ll end up in your Google Reader shared items feed. Sounds sweet.
[tags]aggregators, feeddemon, rssbandit, googlereader, rss, feeds[/tags]
What? You didn’t know today was OPML Thursday? Neither did I, until I threw that up there in the title of this post.
I figured that the especially RSS-geeky among you might care to peruse my current Google Reader OMPL file. I think I removed all personal/private/incriminating feeds. Hopefully.
How about you? What’s in your reader?
[tags]opmlthursday, opml[/tags]
I just got done reading through a post today over at Web Worker Daily called Needing a Gentle Intro to RSS Feeds. The author talks about some frustration/confusion she has with “getting” Google Reader and figuring out how to go through her feeds.
After reading the article, it seems to me that her problem is mostly self-imposed. She subscribes to a total of 36 feeds and seems completely stressed-out over categorization/tagging. Here’s the deal: at 36 feeds, you probably don’t need categorization/tagging. If anything maybe break out the 12 Second Life feeds into their own category, but when you’re creating categories for one or two feeds, you’re wasting time.
A big key to RSS with Google Reader is to stop organizing and start reading.
A river of news is a beautiful thing. At 36 feeds, just hit the “All Items” link in Google Reader and scroll your way through life.
[tags]rss, googlereader, riverofnews[/tags]
