Peter's Blog

I had a play with googles online rss reader. It is very fancy but I don't think it would tempt me away from bloglines:

• You only see one article at a time. Bloglines shows you all the articles from a feed in one page which I think is better for spotting the interesting stuff. You can step through the articles with the j button in both bloglines and the google reader (coincidence? Group homage to vi?)
• I don't want to go through a mix of articles from all feeds in chronological order. I like to go through feed by feed. If I open the list of feeds in the google reader it occupies half the screen on my d410.
• It is a bit buggy: at one point the 'loading' splash thing got stuck on. But like most google software it is beta.
• It carefully strips the colour coding and indentation out of syntax highlighted code. Bloglines strips the indentation. I am not sure why they do this, is it the presentation police?

What I am looking for is the mysthical rss aggregator with bayesian filtering that will learn what interests you and only show that. I'd write one if there were only nine days in every week.

Conclusion: google see rss as the future and want to slap adverts all over my blatherings.