(blogger still sucks though)

I recently switched my RSS reader from bloglines to Google Reader. (So did Lifehacker, with all the details.)

I'm a bit of a Google Reader evangelist now -- I've been trying to get all my friends (particularly the bloggers) to switch. I'm writing for three blogs now and I don't know how I ever lived without the tagging feature. My tags include:

"Daily" (What I have to stay on top of no matter how busy I am, and favorites such as Golden Fiddle and Emily)
"Friend" (to keep up with my friends' personal blogs that aren't updated often - very useful as a cheatsheet before attending a party, if you're like me and everyone you know has a blog.)
"Useful" (Includes sites like 43 Folders and MB Toolbox)
"Comedy" (Every comedy site I find goes here)
As well as technorati search RSS feeds for my favorite subjects and people (Amy Sedaris, Patton Oswalt, etc)

The best thing about Google Reader is that in many cases it picks up blogs and sites that don't even have RSS! You just enter the URL of the site and 90% of the time, Google will find a feed.

Anyway, lately my main online timewaster has been looking for time-saving and organizational hacks -- oh the irony.

Comments

[Julie Fitzgerald]

I'm going to be blogging soon - just wanted to know why blogger sucks?

[lindsay robertson]

Zero customer service, constantly breaking, slow on new features, and really buggy. Dumping Blogger for Typepad was the best, uh, blog-related decision I've ever made (I can't really think of many others, but you know what I mean.)

[radosh]

Unless I'm missing something, Google Reader doesn't refresh very often. Not even when you click "refresh."