{"id":553,"date":"2006-09-28T22:35:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/28\/reader-is-nice-im-sticking-with-netvibes\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T22:35:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:35:55","slug":"reader-is-nice-im-sticking-with-netvibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/28\/reader-is-nice-im-sticking-with-netvibes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader is nice &#8212; I&#8217;m sticking with Netvibes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time that Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/09\/28\/google-reader-steps-it-up-with-new-version\/\">gave<\/a> its feedreader an update, and I think some of the features it has added are pretty good, although I&#8217;m not sure I would go so far as to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_reader_redesign.php\">call it &#8220;stunning&#8221;<\/a>, as Richard MacManus at Read\/Write Web does. It is pretty slick, though. It handled the importing of my OPML file just fine, and I like the fact that it marks items read as you scroll past them. <\/p>\n<p>The sharing is not a bad idea either, and I like the way you can incorporate shared items into a blog widget, as Peter Upfold has done <a href=\"http:\/\/peter.hybridweb.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>. But maybe I&#8217;m just not cut out for the pure &#8220;river of news&#8221; approach, as Dave Winer calls it. I&#8217;ve tried just about every feed reader out there, including Bloglines and Newsgator and Rojo and Live Bookmarks, and I&#8217;m still kind of partial to Netvibes.com. <\/p>\n<p>I like the way I can see about 20 different feeds in a single glance, with five or six headlines per feed, and can mark each individual one read with a single click (which reinforces the fact that I think headline writing has become even more important than it already was, but I digress). The new Google Reader is definitely an improvement, but I think I&#8217;ll stick with Netvibes for now, even if Paul says the new Reader <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/28\/google_reader_r.html\">rocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time that Google gave its feedreader an update, and I think some of the features it has added are pretty good, although I&#8217;m not sure I would go so far as to call it &#8220;stunning&#8221;, as Richard MacManus at Read\/Write Web does. It is pretty slick, though. It handled the importing of my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/28\/reader-is-nice-im-sticking-with-netvibes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reader is nice &#8212; I&#8217;m sticking with Netvibes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}