Comments on: Drinking from the fire hose

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:13:32 +0000

Mihai, that’s pretty cool. It’s close to almost exactly what I want. It does have the inactivity monitor so I can look for feeds that aren’t updating. And it has a notion of which feeds I think most frequently have good stuff. But I can’t flip that and see which feeds I tihnk least likely have good stuff. If the “Reading Trends” part of the report allowed me to see the “bottom 10″ instead of just the top 10/20/40, it would be perfect.

That being said, Reader is much better than the last time I gave it a look. I’ve imported my OPML and I’ll be doing a little bit of a “Pepsi challenge” between it and Bloglines this week.

By: Mihai Parparita

Mihai Parparita — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:10:40 +0000

As luck would have it, we just added a stats/trends page to Reader. After you’ve used it for a while, it should have the kind of data you’re looking for. This blog post has more about it:

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-like-big-charts-and-i-cannot-lie.html

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:35:40 +0000

Hm, I’ve been thinking about ways to trim back my subscriptions. My reader is starting to show its limits and I’ve been thinking about adding some features to it.

Some of them are just basic stats to help me manage feeds — like dead feeds, feeds with high error rates, feeds that haven’t been updated for a while, that kind of thing.

I have a lot of photo feeds, and they’re just *different* than text feeds — and should probably be treated differently. I’m not really sure how best to do it, though, since each photo feed has a different idea of how to put “here’s the photo with a caption” into a feed item.

Anyway, your post describes some useful views that I plan to rip off shamelessly. Too bad my feed reading software is unlikely to be released. It sure makes my life nicer, though.

(It’s not, technically, a “reader”, since it’s an expanded form of the RSS-to-IMAP script I posted about a while back. I’ve been using it for over a year now, though.)

By: Adam Platti

Adam Platti — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:27:12 +0000

Yea, I have the same problem. Marshall Kirkpatrick “open sourced” the way he used to consume massive amounts of RSS data when he used to work for TechCrunch. I’ve tried some of his ideas and I think they’ve helped a bit, although they have encouraged me to subsribe to many more feed so I’m still overloaded Anyway, check it out:

http://marshallk.com/open-sourcing-my-techcrunch-work-flow

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:56:29 +0000

Yeah, I kept starting and stopping. I haven’t had a lot of time to develop on my own, personal stuff. Things have been too crazy lately. I’m thinking I should just start with an existing aggregator and add my features. That might have a higher chance of success.

Google Reader is interesting, but yeah…the feature set is similar to Bloglines. I actually checked out Reader last night thinking, “hey, those Google guys are supposed to be smart…maybe they solved this.” Sadly…no, the features I want aren’t available on Reader.

Someone told me to hook up with the SearchFox guy at Yahoo!. I remember looking at SearchFox a while back and it felt a bit like gear grinding. But it sounds like it had something similar to what I want (although, not exactly).

By: Guillaumeb

Guillaumeb — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:09:46 +0000

Oh well I was actually waiting for your personal feed reader. Man you told us you’d build your own!
Anyway, from what I”ve seen, the googlle reader is now a complete rip off bloglines so you may wanna try it