After encountering yet-another subscriptions?-what-subscriptions? bug in Rojo, I decided to take my most recent OPML export and check out google’s Reader again. I’ve heard some good things about it — after it’s recent redesign it’s supposedly actually usuable as an aggregator …
Look ma, an RSS aggregator that can go through a software update without completely tanking!
I’ve been on it for about a week. Seems to flow decently enough. I have a couple of complaints, but the fact that I can go through it using (mostly) keyboard commands is a big plus. It *mostly* fits in well with my feed reading style, which, for lack of a better term, I’ll call skim-and-queue. Skim through all my feeds, and queue up items I want to read in depty by opening them up in a new tab. Then, close the aggregator, and make my way through the tabs. Works well for me. Thanks to greader’s shortcuts, I don’t have to deal with the mouse, except to open in a new tab — while the title link works to open items in a new window, the keyboard shortcut gets caught by Firefox’s popup-blocker. Most annoying.
That’s a fairly minor thing though. I do wish I could find an aggregator that would let me specify an oldest-first sorting for my unread items though. Having to jump to the bottom in order to read sequentially is one of the really annoying things about … well, just about any aggregator.
So, it looks like, for the time being, I’ll be dropping yet another daily bit into Google’s silo … Until, I suppose, I get annoyed enough with the whole thing to write-my-own-damn-aggregator ….