New and uncharted territory. This is something my friends have been harping on me to try out, and I finally did it, and I have to say I am not impressed with the results. The amount of information is daunting to someone of my obsessive-compulsiveness, and it was almost an overload of stimuli. This might be fine for some, but it was harrowing and chaotic and frightening to me. Perhaps Google Reader is just not the right site to go with. Plus, I could not find a way to clean up the feeds. I could mark them as "Read" but there was no way to delete the read feeds. Will this just keep piling up forever? So much clutter... it gives me great anxiety just thinking about it. I may have to cancel this one.
I will give another server a go and get back to you guys. But not now.
2 comments:
Don't freak out just yet Mister. I think I have an answer for you on getting rid of older feeds. When you are in your Google Reader account and you're looking at all the feeds from, oh I don't know, let's say "The Daily Show Blog". Toward the top of the page is a button that says "Mark All As Read". Go ahead and click that and it will clear out all the feeds that are queued under that blog. Now once you do that, you'll see some kinda counter at the top that says "Show: 0 new items - all items". The "all items" link will reload all those feeds you just deleted. Is that what your trying to do?
I think the problem lay not in the amount of old feeds, but the weight of the interface. As I posted tonight, I've found a lightweight RSS Reader for my GNOME desktop! =) Reading Feeds is fun again.
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