Teach42

I gave it a try.  I really wanted to like it.  I like just about everything that Google releases, but I just can’t get into Google Reader. 

After a friend reccomended it highly, I exported my blog list from Bloglines and imported it into Google Reader to give it the ol’ college try.  I’ve used it for about a week now, and I have to admit that there’s very little I like about it.

On the positive side, it’s a very sleek interface and I love the use of AJAX (or whatever they’re using to make things slide around smoothly).  It’s slick, it’s smooth, it’s as shiny as anything else that Google has released.

However, it just doesn’t have the features that I’ve come to expect from an aggregator.  There doesn’t seem to be any easy way for me to just browse the posts from a single blog.  It insists on blending all unread posts together.  I can seperate things out by tags, but do I really need to tag every single one of my feeds with a seperate tag?  I do like the fact that I can hide posts that I’ve read.  But there doesn’t seem to be any way to mark ALL posts as read if I just want to clear things out!  So I have to go through them all individually, which is a royal pain. 

It may be that there’s ways to accomplish these things and I just didn’t see them, but that brings me to another problem: a severe lack of documentation.  It’s not simple and intuitive, which I’ve come to expect from Google.  And because of that, I’ve spent a ton of time looking for features that don’t seem to exist. 

So I bid thee farewell, Google Reader.  Time to move back in with Bloglines!

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