ten billion butterfly sneezes

I’ve griped and groused here on this old blog, and back in my days with the Twitter, about my need to consolidate all my RSS and Atom feeds under one roof, preferably a web-based one.

I tried Gregarius, as detailed here. And it was cool. I was hosting my own feeds. Problem was, I found the interface to be somewhat impenetrable; it was hard, at least for me, to mark items read, and have them stay so marked. I liked the tagging features, and appreciated the available plugins and themes. Nevertheless, it remained a pain to use.

From there, I migrated to Feed on Feeds. It was easier to navigate, though lacking in available plugins. After a few weeks of use, I noticed that read articles popped up again, unaccountably. Or worse, that unread ones got marked read.

With both, I had to lash up my own feed update mechanism. With both, perhaps my wanting it to do everything I wanted out of the box was part of the problem. Reading feeds shouldn’t be so high maintenance in my world.

So, shamefacedly, and bashfully, I went to the Google, and opened an account.

After a week, I’ll say that it’s a great web-based reader. I don’t like the Google, I don’t trust them, and consider them to be the new Microsoft. Any company whose mantra is Do no Evil is hiding or doing something, to my notion. Do no Evil is best demonstrated by example.

But, at least for now, all my subscribed feeds are back in one sock.

-k-