Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Bloglines vs Google Reader

I used Bloglines for a few months and I was very happy with it. I didn't long for more features. But then I tried Google Reader and I switched to about a week later. I've looked back over my should but I haven't turned back.

I'm happy enough with Reader, but do I miss some things about Bloglines. Like sharing, where a visitor could see a list of the feeds I've subscribed to. But I also really dig that Reader makes a live feed out my shared item. I also miss Bloglines's 'clip' feature, and Reader's Starred items is just not equivalent. I hadn't really been using the share feature of Reader, but now I plan to use it the same way I used clip in Bloglines - As a longer-term save, where I share items I plan to simply read later or again and then eventually delete.

The best of both worlds woulds be the clip of Bloglines, and reader's style of sharing, with live feeds. But I don't want to necessarily mark each item manually that I want to Share. It would be nice to share an entire feed or chosen set of feeds.

I just found that a feature of Reader that I wanted, already exists. I can apply sharing to any item with a particular tag. One step closer...

1 comments:

Therese said...

Interesting to know.