My final thought on Google Reader is pretty straight forward; I'm uninstalling Juice, my personal news reader and I'm making Google Reader my primary reader.
http://www.google.com/reader/lens/
Notes:
- The bug I've been struggling with that caused the items to be unsorted seems to have been related to the handling of the Channel 9 feed. Since removing the feed, I've not encountered the problem.
- Google Reader consumes a lot of memory and I have to restart the browser from time-to-time. No big deal.
- I've updated the chicklet generator to include the Google Reader chicklet created by Chris Nolan. You can see the new chicklet in my right sidebar.
- The Your subscriptions tab is very slow when you have hundreds of subscriptions like myself. Patience is a necessity.
- OPML item use title attribute instead of the text attribute. A very common mistake. The outline is missing the htmlUrl attribute (consider that a feature request). The OPML head is empty; it would be nice to see <title>Reading list from Google Reader</title> or something like that.
- I like the Starred items feature. Basically, I read a few hundred items and star the ones I need to take action on. It's the same behavior I've taught myself reading email in Gmail.
- Gmail this is pretty cool too! Mail this using the mailto URI scheme would have been more karma centric.
- I wonder how the <item> relevance is calculated?
- The IE process for Google Reader is over 133M as I type this.
- Is this the end of Bloglines?
End of Bloglines? I hope not -- it's a big web. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd think that there'd be even more feedreaders next year. And more specialization.
Chris W.
Another feature request. I'd like to be able to mark all items for one feed as read.
Randy