Jan 05 2007
Bloglines vs. Google
I have been using Bloglines to read my blogs, but every now and then I notice weird things with Bloglines. Since I’ve been posting more, I’ve been noticing that my new posts aren’t showing up as quickly as I’d expect in Bloglines. A few months ago I started getting repeat posts in Bloglines, sometimes a few months worth! At that time I set up a Google Reader account, but then Bloglines got better and since I was used to that format I went back to them.
A friend of mine uses Google Reader and he likes it better than Bloglines – he agreed that he likes Google Reader better because that was the one he used first (the same reason I gave for liking Bloglines better). But – I have decided to give Google Reader another shot. Bloglines is still slow in updating and I do still get lots of repeat posts.
I imported my feeds from Bloglines into Google Reader and I have been navigating the new reader and I have decided I like it. There was one thing that I think needs updating (I need to send feedback to Google on this) – since I originally set up the Google Reader last month or so, I had tons of unread posts, but I had actually read them all through Bloglines. In order to mark them all read, I had to click on each feed and then click a Mark All Read link. With over 100 feeds, that was more time consuming than it had to be. It would have been nice to have a global Mark All Read option.
If that’s my only complaint – I think I’m going to be fine with Google Reader…..
