index.xml (2998B)
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> 2 <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <channel> 4 <title>Web on Chris Bracken</title> 5 <link>https://chris.bracken.jp/tags/web/</link> 6 <description>Recent content in Web on Chris Bracken</description> 7 <generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator> 8 <language>en</language> 9 <lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://chris.bracken.jp/tags/web/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> 10 <item> 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> 14 15 <guid>https://chris.bracken.jp/2007/05/google-reader/</guid> 16 <description><p>For years, I&rsquo;ve been a fan of <a href="http://inessential.com/">Brent Simmons&rsquo;</a> OS X-based feed 17 reader, <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/">NetNewsWire</a>. It&rsquo;s a fantastic application, and I&rsquo;ve definitely 18 got my money&rsquo;s worth out of it. After partnering with <a href="http://newsgator.com/">NewsGator</a>, 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.</p> 23 <p>While NewsGator&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 <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/">Google 26 Reader</a>, and I have to say, I&rsquo;m impressed. While the 27 presentation isn&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&rsquo;t used it in almost a month. So while I look 31 forward to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hicksdesign/210309912/">NetNewsWire 3</a>, I&rsquo;m sticking to Google Reader for the time 32 being.</p> 33 <figure><img src="https://chris.bracken.jp/post/2007-05-30-google-reader.png" 34 alt="Google reader graph of usage by hour of day"> 35 </figure> 36 37 <p>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&rsquo;d be curious to compare this to <em>before</em> I had a baby that woke me 40 up around that time.</p> 41 <p><em>Update (2007-06-06):</em> NetNewsWire 3.0 is now out.</p> 42 </description> 43 </item> 44 45 </channel> 46 </rss>