{"id":10523,"date":"2006-10-05T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/05\/good-bye-bloglines-hello-google-reader\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T13:28:23","slug":"good-bye-bloglines-hello-google-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/05\/good-bye-bloglines-hello-google-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Good bye, Bloglines.  Hello, Google Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have totally switched from Bloglines to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/\">Google Reader<\/a>.  This was the fastest switch ever.  And the most surprising one too.  You see, I&#8217;m spending more than half of every day in my feed aggregator.  That&#8217;s a lot of time.  Needless to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\">Bloglines<\/a> is one of my favourite tools.  And we all know how difficult it is to move away from one.  Especially, when it does the job.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned earlier, I was going to try the new version of Google Reader.  And so I did.  I found myself two hours later glued to it.  And couldn&#8217;t leave it.  And what is even more surprisng, I haven&#8217;t checked into my Bloglines account ever since.   It was an instant switch.<\/p>\n<p>Bloglines is a great tool, but Google Reader is almost perfect.  It has a number of its own little glitches and annoyances, but it works so great that I need no other.<\/p>\n<p>And just in case you&#8217;re interested, here are the things I want to see fixed in Google Reader:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Feed options<\/strong>.  I have a whole bunch of feeds and it&#8217;s no fun going through all of them in one page.  Bloglines has a nice way of managing feeds on a feed by feed basis. I just click to read the feed, and I have a nice feed settings link right up there.  There is one in Google Reader too, but currently it only has &#8220;Unsubscribe&#8221; as the only action.  This will probably change soon though.  I am waiting for a way to change feed tags for example.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manual sorting<\/strong>.  Google Reader now has this folder-like look with tags, like many other RSS readers do.  The only problem though is that there is no way to sort tags, except for alphabetically.  That&#8217;s way too limited.  I need manual sorting. I want to have feeds from my friends and family up there at the top, no in the F-section (Friends, Family).  There is a workaround to tag those feeds with _friends and _family, but it looks ugly and feels hackerish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>RSS feeds for tags<\/strong>. There is a way now with Google Reader to mark every tag either private or public.  And to easy embed items from a certain tag to a webpage, via just a couple of clicks.  What I want instead, is to have an RSS feed for this tag.  So that I can have a tag like &#8220;funny&#8221; and all items that I tag with it, will appear in the feed, which I could then share easily with my friends and family.  That&#8217;s like forwarding  jokes without annoying people.  And, if it is in the form of RSS feed, it&#8217;s pretty easy to embedded into the website too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it.  Oh, well, there is a little bug with new items counting, but every RSS reader that I&#8217;ve seen passed through this stage at one time or another.  With all the smart people at Google, I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t take them long to fix it.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have totally switched from Bloglines to Google Reader. This was the fastest switch ever. And the most surprising one too. You see, I&#8217;m spending more than half of every day in my feed aggregator. That&#8217;s a lot of time. Needless to say, Bloglines is one of my favourite tools. And we all know how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/05\/good-bye-bloglines-hello-google-reader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good bye, Bloglines.  Hello, Google Reader<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9688,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/20\/google-reader-vs-bloglines\/","url_meta":{"origin":10523,"position":0},"title":"Google Reader vs. Bloglines","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"As you might know, Google has offered a new service to the Internet community - an RSS\/Atom aggregator called Google Reader. 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