Another limitation of RSS readers I’ve often griped about before: with a few exceptions (Bloglines for one), they exclude comment threads from the feed. This sends entirely the wrong message: that the posts are the main thing, and the writer of the blog is the expert. I operate on the opposite assumption: I post my [...]
Archives for posts tagged ‘aggregators’
Learning 2.0 Conference Shanghai Mashup 1.1: Exotic Soundtrack
Friday, 21 September 2007
Why I’m Liking Google Reader Better Than Bloglines
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
Google Reader keeps formatting – italics, picture resizing, etc. Bloglines doesn’t. I work on those italics, blast it. (And Bloglines readers, that “work” was italicized.) Why I don’t like any reader I know of right now: They don’t include comments (I know you can subscribe to comments, but it ain’t the same). Readers miss coComments [...]
Pageflakes Magic, Will Richardson Ditto, Doug on "Controversy" instead of "Indoctrination"
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Pageflakes – your free student and teacher start page I am a complete idiot for not reading Will Richardson religiously. Pageflakes for students and teachers is powerful stuff. – post by cburell Weblogg-ed ยป Using Pageflakes as Student Portal A gem from Will Richardson on classroom use of Pageflakes. I see a migration coming. – [...]
Tech Test: Do Flash Embeds Work in Bloglines and Google Reader? (Java doesn’t)
Sunday, 20 May 2007
[Update: Short answer: No, Flash doesn't work either.] This is a test of feed readers. I want to see if the Flash version of the polls I embedded in “A Quick Youth Relevance Poll: School, Church, and Unschooled Youths” will show up in Bloglines and Google Reader, since the Java versions don’t. If you’ve already [...]
Introducing RSS, Bloglines, Tagged Searching, del.icio.us, and Diigo to Students
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
An invitation to you to snoop in my new history class website’s pages laying out step-by-step instructions for how to set up and use all the tools listed above to do research. All feedback is welcome. I’m especially keen to hear if anybody can suggest improvements in the process I use to subscribe to del.icio.us [...]
A Pox on My Own Frustration Intolerance, and Kudos to Bloglines for Listening
Saturday, 24 February 2007
The burn-out I mentioned in my last post showed in the sour title. Apologies for that (and shame on me–life’s too short for sourness). I did “breathe,” as Barbara advised in a comment, and sleep in Saturday. Mental hygiene seems about done; frustration tolerance, refueled. Especially in light of the email I woke to from [...]
A Pox on Bloglines…and Google Reader
Thursday, 22 February 2007
The continuing saga: If you’ve been reading the last week’s post, you know about the headaches Bloglines’ Image Wall has caused me and other educators who have trained our students in using feed aggregators for research. And you know that I decided to jump ship to Google Reader to avoid future headaches. Many of you [...]
Hello, Google Reader
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
I appreciated Bloglines’ attempt to listen and problem-solve, but didn’t have time to wait. Helpful comments about Google Reader led me to explore it and Netvibes yesterday as alternatives to Bloglines and that unfortunate Image Wall. Google Reader is slower than I’d like, and it possibly caused some crashes on my Firefox (though I’m sure [...]
Update: Bloglines is Listening and Seeking Solutions
Monday, 19 February 2007






