Feeling Unfaithful

I once ask a friend if he was planning to get a new dog when his current dog died. We talked about it uncomfortably for few minutes and he finally said “Talking about this makes me feel . . . unfaithful.”

That’s about how I feel endorsing Google Reader over Bloglines. I’ve used Bloglines for many years now. It was a great invention when it started, allowing me to survey all the blogs I subscribed to at a glance and see who had posted without checking every single one. I’ve been very pleased with it but now Charity has started using Google Reader and . . . and . . . I’ve converted.

It’s set up to do all the same things as Bloglines except it has one great feature hidden under Settings then Goodies. When visiting this page you simply drag the Next » button onto your bookmarks.  From then on new posts are just a click away.  And the best part is that when you click on Next » button the blogs themselves appear, not just the text and pictures.  No more formating issues or missing pictures.

Not only do you get to read all the comments that other people have made but you also get to see the beautiful formats and designs of their websites.  Suddenly reading blogs is a very colorful experience!  I now read all my friend’s blogs this way and have been slowly feeling less “unfaithful” to a product that served me so well for so long.  Soon I’ll be ready to declare “Come!  Give your life and information to Google!  It’s better over here. “

(and I also really like it because when there are no more new entries to read it directs you to go read a book!)