Phewww! Trying to catch up to my fellow workshop attendees here! Thing 4: RSS Feeds.
I am kind of more overwhelmed by learning a new reader--Bloglines--than I am the concept of RSS feeds and following multiple blogs at once. I have been a loyal Google Reader subscriber for a couple years now. I am kind of curious, since we're using Gmail and Blogger which has a link to Google too, why are we using Bloglines for our RSS Feed aggregator experience? I am wondering if it is better. Well, I guess I will find out firsthand!
Blogs and RSS are definitely overwhelming, but a reader can become so as well. There are times when I have to "Mark as Read" and start over at "0 New Items"! In Google Reader, there is the ability to star favorite blogs and tag them for future reference. I get overwhelmed with that too--when I go back to look for something I have a vague memory of, I have a hard time finding it even though I have tagged it as many ways as I could think of at the time. I would like to know a better way to organize that which I would like to pull out of the never-ending flow of information!
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Using Bloglines will give you a way to compare the two readers. Feel free, however, to continue to use Google Reader if that works best for you. We chose Bloglines for this course because we think it is easier for getting started. We'll be anxious to hear your opinions about that.
ReplyDeleteI liked some of the organizational options in bloglines, but I didn't like how it would click all items as "Read" as soon as I clicked on a feed. There are times when I have to stop where I am and want to come back to that which I have not yet read. Google Reader keeps the unviewed items as "Unread" which I like.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, there didn't seem to be too many differences!