Google Reader
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Google Reader has a bunch of flaws that I’ve read about but don’t understand, but the awesome thing about it is that it makes reading 60+ news posts per diem fun.
It’s the keyboard shortcuts. Gotta be. Keyboard shortcuts combined with feed highlighting as you j j j your way down your list. No scrolling, no ticking–hell, I don’t even have to lift my hand to view where the post came from. The drawback is that much of my reading list is via livejournal, and it won’t pick up locked entries whether I’m logged in at the time or not. Flock used to have a pretty nice feed reader that would use livejournal’s cookies, but that was before Flock decided that it wasn’t really that important to separate read feeds from unread feeds.
So now, I actually like seeing that I have a gazillion new feed items to sift through, because it’s easy as pie not only to get through them, but to actually read them. This is the way transient information ought to be viewed. Fleetingly. Easily. Conveniently. Aaaaaaah.