Comments | bsdcat: minor cleaning

bsdcat

minor cleaning

Dec 20, 2009 17:02

I've been fed up with LJ's syndication of RSS feeds for at least a year or so, but I finally decided to try out Google Reader. So now I'm going to have to try to read LJ (particularly for the friends-only posts; otherwise I could simply follow everyone from Google), Facebook, and Google. Great. If LiveJournal hadn't consistently failed to handle ( Read more... )

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altamira16 December 21 2009, 01:17:46 UTC

I have Google Reader for everything that is not LJ, and LJ for everything that is.

parsenome December 22 2009, 04:30:01 UTC

I'm on all three of those, too.

ehowton December 22 2009, 14:34:14 UTC

Outside of their web-search engine, I pretty much shy-away from anything Google. I hate their online mail, Apps is slow and gets confused, Picasa wants to shuffle my pictures around, and I have no desire to install Chrome or any reason to use Reader. Don't they also have a virtual phone number now you can send your real number to different devices? What the hell? Why can't they just be a good search engine?

bsdcat December 22 2009, 15:55:46 UTC

I'm not particularly anti-Google, but I don't adopt new Google software simply because Google did it. As far as Reader, I dunno if you saw it before I deleted it, but I had 40-some-odd RSS feeds I was following through LiveJournal.

At this point the software I'm using from Google includes: Reader, Groups (when I need to hop on Usenet, which is rare), Webmaster Tools (very closely related to their search business), and Finance (which I just started using recently).

reader hobgadling December 25 2009, 05:37:20 UTC

google reader is awesome, although check your privacy settings because everything is public by default (I.e. whenever you "share" or "like" something) and you may not want to share all that. If only facebook would publish an RSS feed for your friend feed, and you could add protected LJ posts it would be perfect.

Re: reader bsdcat December 25 2009, 13:01:22 UTC

Why would I "share" or "like" something and not want to share that? :-P

Re: reader hobgadling December 25 2009, 16:43:52 UTC

well there's a difference between sharing what you read with people you know and sharing it with anyone on the internet who knows your e-mail address. consider: would you want every co-worker, potential employer, and parent of your kids playmates knowing everything that you read on the internet?

Re: reader bsdcat December 25 2009, 17:32:26 UTC

Errr... What? "Links for which I click 'share' or 'like' in Google Reader" is a tiny subset (currently of cardinality 0) of "links I read on Google Reader," much less "everything I read on the Internet." You're talking a little crazy here.

Besides which, up until last week I was using LJ here to syndicate journals. Guess how private that is?