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TOPIC: READER

Google Reader

22^nd April 2007

Going through the stats for my other blog, I noticed some activity from Google Reader and decided to investigate. What I discovered was a very capable feed reader, much better than Technorati's equivalent. The interface feels a little like an email client, with a different entry in the sidebar for each feed. It also gives you full text and pictures for each blog article that it picks up, though it messes with my hillwalking blog for some reason... As a feed aggregator, it performs very well and makes my blog surveying a lot more effortless. I know that Outlook 2007 has aggregation functionality too, but the portability of Google's little online offering makes it worth taking further, especially as you wouldn't need to pay for it anyway.

Update: Google Reader also allows you to share items from your feeds.

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