Tag: google_reader

  • Google Reader saved my life!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Well, that might be exaggerating it slightly 😉 Still, I was away recently on holidays for three weeks and I didn’t bring my laptop with me. I was offline. Cut off from the infostream for the first time in months. Then one evening, while walking my son Enrique around the local plaza, I noticed there…

  • Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…

  • Finally, an outstanding online RSS reader

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have had issues with Google Reader (Google’s online RSS/feed reader) in the past but in the latest update to Google Reader, released today most of those issues have been addressed. Lots of people are posting opinions on this from Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch to Robert Scoble on Scobleizer to Richard McManus on the ReadWrite…

  • Google Reader – how to delete feeds

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google Reader is one of the better online feed readers. It sports a nice ajaxy interface and runs reasonably speedily. However, I have 239 feeds in my Google Reader account now and I wish to delete most of these. The only problem is that there doesn’t appear to be a way to delete more than…