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[link] 2005-10-07T13:41:42 google reader vs bloglines: I'm a bloglines.com user, but I tried google.com/reader for 3 minutes. It doesn't seem to have anything interesting, at least not immediately after you import your subscriptions. I also see that google hasn't improved on the horrible 'keep unread' command that bloglines also has. GR has 'stars' and 'blog this' and 'labels' which I have not investigated. On bloglines, 'keep unread' is by far the cheapest way to say 'this article is notable and I want to reread it later or show it to someone else later'. Putting an article in clippings (and finding it later) is many times harder. But 'keep unread' sucks, because it makes the article indistinguishable from new articles. That property combined with the fact that, on a quick news scan, 'keep unread' is how I'm encouraged to mark the articles I especially like, means that the unread flag is being overloaded in a bad way. The only time 'keep unread' would mean what it says is when I accidentally load an article onto the screen but then somehow do not read it at all. Anything other condition means something like 'seen', 'read', 'viewed in the last session', 'would like to reread', etc. Possibly GR stars are a fix to this, but then there shouldn't be a per-article 'keep unread'. There should be viewer commands like 'undo last article view' or 'undo last session' which are more clearly to be used when articles were presented but the user didn't read them. Also, the GR status line says 'Could not find parameter "date" in map "entry-template". TypeError: a has no properties' :)
[link] 2005-10-11T13:00:45 Sun vs Dell ad: "Sun's industry standard x64 servers run 50% faster, use 66% less power, take up 1/4 the space and are priced at half what a comparable Dell box is. All this while running Sun Solaris, Linux or Microsoft Windows." (from http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=a_brand_is_a_promise) How is the Dell box "comparable" then?
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