11 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

An Open Letter to Google, RE: Google Reader

Dear Google,
You know, after all of the free services you’ve given me over the years, I have to say that it would be downright ungrateful of me to go telling you about all of the other things you ought to give me. So instead, I’ll ask nicely.
I LOVE Google Reader. I don’t care [...]

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08 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

Google Reader vs. Bloglines in the Cage

As mentioned yesterday, Google launched its Google Reader feed aggregator, a competitor to Bloglines. I guess it’s also a competitor to standalone feed readers, but I get the impression that those are a very different set of users.
I’ve used Bloglines for quite a while, and I’ve grown to love being able to get to [...]

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07 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

Google Reader debuts

Google Reader, a competitor to BlogLines (especially now that they’ve been bought by AskJeeves) debuted today. I imported my .opml file, and everything works pretty well. I like the keyboard shortcuts, and the interface is much friendlier than BlogLines.
But without a Google Reader Extension for Firefox, it’s going to be hard to switch. Also, since [...]

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04 August 2005 ~ Comments Off

Baltimore Blogs

Baltimore, for those not in the know, is a hotbed of blogging:

Blogtimore should be your source for constant Baltimore blog updates. A good interface for browsing, and a great selection of content give you hours of time-wasting goodness.
Shaun Inman is a constant innovator – just ask the host of thieves that are constantly [...]

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