sad to say, but i joined the RSS revolution quite late in the game. i had heard the term tossed around but never bothered to figure out what it was and why i should bother. i believe that it's a byproduct of this fact that i never really bought into the whole blogging thing, probably because i always saw blogs as just too tedious to constantly monitor. because they are. which is why everyone should be using news aggregators like bloglines to monitor their news and blogs for them. there's just too much good/bad/funny/interesting/enlightening stuff out there on the blogosphere to not be paying attention.
anyway, i joined into the revolution by using bloglines to monitor a handful of news feeds and blogs. i've been cruising along nicely until i was turned on recently to Google Reader, just one more way for me to link all my online haunts together, and for google to insidiously invade every facet of my life. the hype was good. the interface seemed clean. i made the switch.
i'm switching back. reader's just not working well for me. my feed menu keeps telling me i haven't read certain posts, but when i click to read, i stare at the google labs logo and then it tells me either the post is unavailable or not there at all. no old posts, no nothing. plus it seems like it's frozen on me a couple times. and i seem to have timed out somehow somewhere. i hear what all the proponents are saying, how it's got lots of great features and bloglines has been really static, essentially resting on its laurels living on name recognition alone. but for me at least, i'm already nostalgic for the ultra-simple interface and lack of super features, because it did what it did and i never forced it to do too much, and it always responded in kind.
so get ready bloglines! i'm coming home!
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