{"id":515,"date":"2007-04-14T06:54:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/14\/google-reader-is-the-solution\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T16:03:29","slug":"google-reader-is-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/14\/google-reader-is-the-solution","title":{"rendered":"Google Reader is the Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a long-time hold-out user of standalone RSS aggregators (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpreader.net\/\">SharpReader<\/a> for Windows and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/straw\/\">Straw<\/a> on GNU\/Linux, both of which have been somewhat stagnant over the last couple of years). I&#8217;ve finally thrown in the towel and switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\">Google Reader<\/a>. It was a great decision.<\/p>\n<p>The key factor is mobility. I check email and blogs from my personal<a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/google_mobile.jpg\" title=\"Google Mobile Image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/google_mobile.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Google Mobile Image\" \/><\/a> laptop; our kitchen computer; my office workstation; and, perhaps most significantly for Google Reader, from my cell phone. The Google Reader cell phone app is quite good (handy &#8220;keyboard&#8221; shortcuts, efficient presentation), and allows me to catch up during time that is difficult to use for other purposes:  waiting for the train, standing in line at Starbucks, on the elevator.<\/p>\n<p>The only real downside is the lack of offline support (although I don&#8217;t think it would take a rocket scientist to create it), but this is far outweighed by the mobile functionality. As &#8220;access anywhere&#8221; becomes more important than &#8220;offline access,&#8221; I predict we&#8217;ll see more users of all applications make this sort of switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a long-time hold-out user of standalone RSS aggregators (SharpReader for Windows and Straw on GNU\/Linux, both of which have been somewhat stagnant over the last couple of years). I&#8217;ve finally thrown in the towel and switched to Google Reader. It was a great decision. The key factor is mobility. I check email and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}