Comments on: Why I Changed Feed Aggregators

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:07 +0000

Yeah the shortcuts for Reader are great. I especially love the "s", "S", "t" which stars, Shares and tags. And also, for when engadget gets too large "A", which marks all as read.

By: C Siedsma

C Siedsma — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:07 +0000

I sometimes wonder why anyone would bog down their news reader pulling feeds from 34 or more sites. There are web sites out there that do all the grunt work of gathering a wider spectrum of security specific news and make it available to users through just one feed. For example, SecurityNewsPortal.com is pulling RSS feeds from about 3500 security focused RSS feeds. They crunch them down and make available all that news in to just 3 RSS feeds. That is convenience and saves my bandwidth. For general IT security news : .http://www.securitynewsportal.com/infosyssec/secu... For the latest posting from security bloggers : http://www.securitynewsportal.com/infosyssec/secu... ( which is where I found this blog posting.... ) For virus and malware news and alerts http://www.securitynewsportal.com/infosyssec/secu...

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:07 +0000

You can view feed items by tag by clicking on Tags link at the bottom of the 1st screen. You can also view feeds items by subscription name by clicking on the Subscriptions link. Since you like keyboard shortcuts, you can probably use the phone key shortcuts to navigate around quicker (unless you are using Opera Mini which seems to break this).

If you want to change your settings for mobile without using your phone to do it, you can also load up the mobile version of reader using http://www.google.com/reader/m.

By: Leon Blenky

Leon Blenky — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:07 +0000

My favorite part of Google Reader is how I can share my favorite posts with just one click! That is much easier than Bloglines!

By: SR

SR — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:07 +0000

You can use free Feeddemon from newsgator. It is a nice SAAS type app.

By: numerophobe

numerophobe — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:55:13 +0000

Here ya go:
Still works.
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/10/13/blo…

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:02:29 +0000

Great links... I'll have to check them out a bit more. The main drawback is that I hate having to click through to view the content on a mobile viewer. I typically use the Security Bloggers Network feed (http://networks.feedburner.com/Security-Bloggers-...and a handfull of others for infosec related news. I use Reader to track many feeds in different areas like infosec, sports, tech news, politics, business news, hobbies, etc. I find Google reader's tags allow me to read tagged goups of feeds much like reading different sections of a newspaper. Using just an aggregated feed service is a lot less customizable.