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After an endorsment by Vlad <\/a>i figured it would rude not to check out google reader!<\/p>\n

So far i’m pretty impressed. I like the speed of it. One thing about a lot of web services is clicking then waiting which you obviously don’t get with a desktop reader.<\/p>\n

The shortcuts are a god send! I like how the tagging “just works” as i’d tried to use a combination of categories, flags and search folders in outlook to help find stuff but found it too much hassle. The ease of which you can add subscriptions whilst still in reader is great and the fact the interface is pretty similar to google mail is helpful.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I also like that when i select a folder it shows all the items of the feeds inside. It’s something i had wished for in Outlook<\/p>\n

What dont i like?<\/p>\n

Not much to be honest. I wish there was a “mark all as unread”\u00a0 (or mark selection as unread) option as i’d subscribed to a couple of feeds and they were already marked as unread. I didn’t fancy going through each item<\/p>\n

I also had some strange things going on..I tried added the subscribe feature to my links bar and it worked at the office but not at home. Also on some feeds (not all) when i press the ‘M’ button to toggle the read status i just get a script error. Of the ten feeds i’m current subscribed to it only happens to two, Vlad’s feed (spooky!) and the google reader team blog (even spookier!). This happens at the office and on the home pc as well<\/p>\n

Those problems aside my initial impression is good so i’ll run with it for a week and make the move after that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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