Points of (dis)Interest

[kingandy]

1. I have moved most of my non-personal RSS feeds over to Google Reader so things like Neil Gaiman's blog and the VG Cats comic are no longer cluttering up my friends page. More significantly, I'm experimenting with reading scans_daily and ihasatardis that way too. This means I am more likely to read any given LJ post, as the noise-to-signal ratio has dropped sharply. We apologise for any inconwenience.
2. WE HAS A TUMBLE DRIER
3. That is all.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Out of interest, is there a reason why you've moved over to Google? I've got all of my non-personal rss feeds on a specific filter here and just switch to it when I'm ready to read.

Is there an advantage to Google?

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Being able to keep up with your feeds from any machine you happen to be on. Pretty good tagging and filtering facilities. One of the slickest Web 2.0 application implementations I've seen so far ;-)

[jfs.livejournal.com]

:-)

Anywhere I can read Google, I can read Livejournal (unless someone's blacklisted one or the other) but the other two reasons are good ones. I'll have a look.

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

Being able to mark stuff as read is a pretty big plus. It means you can run though looking at a particular set of stuff and then when you go back and look at EVERYTHING, you're not seeing the same stuff again.

I used to use LJ for RSS, then I used Sage in Fx, but for all the reasons given here Google Reader is the best solution. And more private than LJ too.

Plus, Google Reader is very good on the iPod touch/iPhone and probably other mobile devices.

[kingandy]

Well, I thought about the filter thing, but I couldn't see any immediate way to have them not appear in the default view (can you set one of the filters as default?), and I can't be bothered remembering the syntax to browse to a filter (I can remember http://kingandy.livejournal.com/friends, and can type it in from anywhere).

The key difference, though, is that Google Reader is an actual RSS reader, not just an aggregator, so when you load it up it immediately tells you if there are any new posts. You don't have to engage your brain and try to remember if you've read something before. This is important for a bear of little brain like myself.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

If you create a filter called default_view (I think) then whatever you put on that becomes the default which shows up when you just type kingandy.livejournal.com/friends/ (as long as you're logged in).

I don't know if it's just a paid-feature, but I have an LJ toolbar at the top of my screen (part of the site, not the browser) and that has a dropdown list of all of my filters, so I can switch between them easily from my friends page.

Good point about the reader vs. aggregator though. I'll check it out.

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

I've been using iGoogle to watch feeds, but I'll give this a whirl, thanks.

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Needless to say there's a Google Reader widget for iGoogle.

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

*nods* Already added, making my igoogle page look all neat and tidy now, which is nice.

[kingandy]

It's quite good too, all embedded and interactive and WEB2.0 all up ons.