Wow, the new “Google RSS Reader”:http://reader.google.com _really sucks_. How do I know this? Because I’m currently using the best RSS reader out there now, and it’s something that Google themselves had already developed before they released this lame version into the wild.
After trying every rss reader under the sun, I’d finally settled on using a combination of “rss2email”:http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/, “gmailrss”:http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~karu/gmailrss/ (for quick filter creation) and a little bit of awk (rarely) to send and read feeds in my gmail account. This combination rocks my short attention span world.
I have the efficient gmail ui, keyboard shortcuts, google’s built-in search and the awesome power of _volume.. volume.. volume_. Plus I get to use cheeky greasemonkey scripts like this “preview bubble”:http://persistent.info/archives/2005/08/20/gmail-preview-bubbles if I ever feel the urge. Quite frankly, this setup kicks Bloglines’ ass all over the map.
Why Google didn’t leverage the success of their gmail interface by simply adding rss capabilities is just silly.
!http://www.sotto.org/images/gmailrss.jpg(GMail as RSS Reader)!
