Thursday, April 3, 2008

Thing 8: Bloglines vs. Google Reader

Bloglines has a terrible reputation, at least among everyone I asked. I also really didn't like the idea of subscribing to yet another online service--sure, sure, I know I don't have to use it, but I think that this kind of reasoning is contributing to clogging up the Internet with too much traffic. Too much traffic on the Internet means that servers will be using that much more electricity, and that isn't very "green".

Since I already had a Gmail account, it was very easy to subscribe to Google Reader and even easier to subscribe to RSS feeds from my favorite Web sites--Google had already bundled several under "Fun", such as "The Daily Show" and "The Onion".

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