Comments on: Google Reader http://kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/ The Digital Home of Ken & Sarah Walker Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:05:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ken http://kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Ken Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:07:42 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/#comment-1172 Plus it's Google, which has a huge, trusted brand. Will this push RSS out to the masses? Will my Mom (hi, Mom :)) be using it to check our website? Plus it’s Google, which has a huge, trusted brand. Will this push RSS out to the masses? Will my Mom (hi, Mom :)) be using it to check our website?

]]> By: Ryan Abrams http://kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Ryan Abrams Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:24:20 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/#comment-1171 And for the rest of us, who don't have a dedicated server and the unix expertise to setup rss2emal with a procmail.rc containing tons of regular expressions (which we hand write, probably in emacs), this google powered web based rich interface feed reader will probably be a godsend. And for the rest of us, who don’t have a dedicated server and the unix expertise to setup rss2emal with a procmail.rc containing tons of regular expressions (which we hand write, probably in emacs), this google powered web based rich interface feed reader will probably be a godsend.

]]> By: Mike Bond http://kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Mike Bond Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:56:39 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/2005/10/07/google-reader/#comment-1170 Confused me for a minute there. When i read that the first thing i thought was "what is wrong with groups.google.com for reading usenet?" then, obviously, i discovered that by 'news' you meant syndication feeds. Like email, i don't think the web makes a good client for dealing with the content being pushed (or pulled). Actually, RSS and email are remarkably simular and i've found that using the same client for both, and the same filtering and rules engine can be remarkably useful. rss2email + procmail + imap has solved all the rss problems for me, the largest of which was switching computers and locations so many times through the day. Confused me for a minute there. When i read that the first thing i thought was “what is wrong with groups.google.com for reading usenet?”

then, obviously, i discovered that by ‘news’ you meant syndication feeds. Like email, i don’t think the web makes a good client for dealing with the content being pushed (or pulled). Actually, RSS and email are remarkably simular and i’ve found that using the same client for both, and the same filtering and rules engine can be remarkably useful.

rss2email + procmail + imap has solved all the rss problems for me, the largest of which was switching computers and locations so many times through the day.

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