Thursday, January 10, 2008

Bloglines and Google Reader

I had already set up a feed reader or feed aggregator using Google Reader, which I like for several reasons. First of all, my Firefox homepage at home is my iGoogle home page, from which I immediately see the most recent posts in my reader. This is why I chose Google Reader first. It seems that there are strong opinions both ways about whether Google Reader or Bloglines is better. I have set up an account with Blogger as well. I like the "List view" that I see on the right-hand side of the page in Google Reader which provides some headline-type posts, whereas the right-hand side in Bloglines is blank until I choose something to read. It was fairly easy to import my Google Reader blogroll into Bloglines. So I now have both a Bloglines account and a Google Reader account, and, after 23Things is over, I will get rid of one of them. Right now I am leaning towards keeping Google Reader, and it is really the ease of use that I see it every time I log into the iGoogle page.

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