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      4     <title>Web on Chris Bracken</title>
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     11       <title>Google Reader</title>
     12       <link>https://chris.bracken.jp/2007/05/google-reader/</link>
     13       <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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     16       <description>&lt;p&gt;For years, I&amp;rsquo;ve been a fan of &lt;a href=&#34;http://inessential.com/&#34;&gt;Brent Simmons&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt; OS X-based feed
     17 reader, &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/&#34;&gt;NetNewsWire&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a fantastic application, and I&amp;rsquo;ve definitely
     18 got my money&amp;rsquo;s worth out of it. After partnering with &lt;a href=&#34;http://newsgator.com/&#34;&gt;NewsGator&lt;/a&gt;, I
     19 started using their online feed-reader on and off, with mixed
     20 results. I like that it keeps my feeds in sync between my computers,
     21 and that I can browse articles at lunch, but the interface is still not on par
     22 with NetNewsWire itself.&lt;/p&gt;
     23 &lt;p&gt;While NewsGator&amp;rsquo;s implementation was lacking, I really did like the idea of
     24 dropping the desktop app altogether and going with a fully online solution, so
     25 I started exploring other options. The obvious free alternative is &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.google.com/reader/&#34;&gt;Google
     26 Reader&lt;/a&gt;, and I have to say, I&amp;rsquo;m impressed. While the
     27 presentation isn&amp;rsquo;t as customizable as NetNewsWire, the functionality that I use
     28 is all there, and in fact, it has some extra search features that I miss on the
     29 desktop. It was only when I launched NetNewsWire today and saw 290 unread
     30 items, that it hit me I hadn&amp;rsquo;t used it in almost a month. So while I look
     31 forward to &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.flickr.com/photos/hicksdesign/210309912/&#34;&gt;NetNewsWire 3&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;rsquo;m sticking to Google Reader for the time
     32 being.&lt;/p&gt;
     33 &lt;figure&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://chris.bracken.jp/post/2007-05-30-google-reader.png&#34;
     34     alt=&#34;Google reader graph of usage by hour of day&#34;&gt;
     35 &lt;/figure&gt;
     36 
     37 &lt;p&gt;I also discovered that my prime news reading hours are apparently 6:30am to
     38 7:30am and 9pm to 11pm, with a strange local maximum straggling out around
     39 12:30am. I&amp;rsquo;d be curious to compare this to &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; I had a baby that woke me
     40 up around that time.&lt;/p&gt;
     41 &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update (2007-06-06):&lt;/em&gt; NetNewsWire 3.0 is now out.&lt;/p&gt;
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