Monkey on Wordpress

Is there a good way to do this? I need to put feeds in new folders and there just doesn’t seem to be an easy way to do this other than placing feeds in a new folder with the name you want but to do that you would have to know exactly what feeds go where. Drag and drop would be nice.

I’ve been using Bloglines still and have to say it’s still fast. I can’t go back to Google Reader now, not for a while anyway. The thing is fast, really fast, and I like it. With that said, what could be done to make it better?

•  Why does everything have to be marked as read when I click on a feed? With Google Reader, I click on a feed and use j and k to scroll, but when I reach an individual story, it is marked as read. Minor irritation, but what happens when the browser closes mid-feed? I’d miss out.
• Fugly! Please make this thing look better, please!
• No linkblog - There is a blog feature of Bloglines, but I could care less about it. From what I’ve gathered, it’s like having an actual blog since you write about something in your feeds. I don’t want that, I want a linkblog like Google reader, just press a button and it puts that entry from the feed into a blog of entries which I find interesting, or can use to read later.
• Marking a feed item as unread sucks. I don’t even know how something like this could suck, but it worked better in Google Reader.
• Stupid features such as a wall of images are being worked on, but no ability to search feeds? Google can’t search feeds either, so we’re even, I guess.
• We need an “all” button like Google reader so I don’t have to go to each feed individual feed to read. Of course, if that was done, the whole thing about only marking items you actually read as read would have to be implemented.
• We need something like Google Trends, use the information to suggest blogs.
• Get aquired by Google.
• Get a toolbar or something that will work with Firefox. I know there’s a notifier, but I’m none too keen on downloading it.

This must all sound terrible but it really is not. In the end it comes down to speed and functionality which Bloglines has, but they’re not the only ones on the block, so they do need to buck up a bit, listen to their customers. Had I been employed there, I would actually go into more detail as to the things that could improve the service. As it is now, I just want a product that works better.

I like Google Reader, I like it a lot, but my problem is that it runs rather slowly. I’ve heard people talking about Bloglines before, I joined, didn’t think much of it, but decided to give it another go today. The feeds in there were full, and stopped updating to the latest stuff for some feeds (Did you know Newsvine isn’t requiring invites anymore? ;p) but it’s fine. You know what I realised? Google Reader is pretty similar to Bloglines, it has the keyboard shortKuts you Just need to use. I think I will use both Google Reader and Bloglines for a while and see just which of these is the best one to use. If Google can improve on it’s speed, that would be great. Bloglines is moving blazingly fast, I’m impressed. The downside, it looks horrible.

But is the way Bloglines looks really that big of an issue? Well, it’s certainly not anything too bad, it’s just the flash and functionality of Google Reader has me spoilt. Then again, I rather a fast, functional reader that looks good as opposed to a slow, good looking reader. What do you use to read RSS? I’ve used FeedDemon before but I don’t want a desktop client, I’m big on web services and there’s the whole catching up on your feeds no matter where you are. That’s a big one. I did notice bloglines saying they’re hiring for a UI person. Changes seem abound. Again, I’d love to hear what other people use - I’ll be doing my own research. Prior to Google Reader, I used Netvibes, I still have some feeds there. Prior to that, I used SearchFox RSS but they were aquired by Yahoo! if memory serves me right. The service closed down and nothing was mentioned about them again. I also know of people using FeedLounge, but I’m not familiar with this “paying” thing.