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Feedly is another RSS feed aggregator that links to your Google Reader and transforms it into a “magazine-like” view. A couple of my comments while I was using it (edited from the conversation I was having with someone):

me: i don’t know how i feel about this

me: i just started. um, it’s different from google reader (i may not be super adaptable to change)

me: it doesn’t tell me how much i have to read in a way that i can see quickly. i’m not sure where its pulling the tweets, youtube and flickr galleries on the side. which bothers

me (there should be an explanation somewhere regarding how feedly is telling you certain things)

me: you have to click each article individually so you can’t just keep scrolling (the default display mode is magazine)

me: you can use j but it jumps awkwardly (the keyboard shortcut j goes to the next item in Google Reader)

me: it doesn’t eliminate read items unless you click hide and then it fades and goes away. which is another click. way too much clicking

me: it says the unread items at the top of the category but not on the main nav on the side so you have to click in before you can see

me: i don’t understand why they have featured. what makes it featured? (still not sure what makes something “featured.” my friend suggested it’s the most likes its gotten from other readers)

me: the s makes it save for later instead of starring (the keyboard shortcut s stars the current item in Google Reader)

me: there’s nice sm integration in that you can tweet/fb/g+ it all from the post (sm = social media). i don’t like their right side feed. it doesn’t make sense for things to be featured from your rss feed (as in specific items being pulled from one rss feed to be featured) i do like that you can customize the way you view things though—like titles and summary, titles only, grid

me: ahhh…you can see entire content inlined (my preference in reading so there’s no clicking into another item.)

me: you can’t customize view in google reader. oh hey, on google reader you can add send to and you can add where you share. (this was a pretty cool discovery)

me: feedly does have a drop shadow that shows you you’re on the nex titem

me: awesome on feedly you can tailor sharing tools

me: oh man you can change the sm modules. you can take em all away, which is cool (the right hand side feed is customizable in user preferences)

(this is where i started discuss my doubts about pursuing this for my thesis)

me: shoot, i’m starting to feel like my thesis is null. there are so many digital reading things out there

me: i’m just wondering if i shouldn’t pursue reading. what exactly do i think is the problem? (a good question)

(back to talking about Feedly)

me: iono if i’m obsessive, but it really bothers me that i can’t see my reading amt go down (i really like seeing how many items aren’t read and to see the number decrease as i read)

me: oh wow. when you’re not logged into feedly and you go to their site the homepage is set to “explore” and all the feeds listed are culled from the latest sites you visited in that browser

after the jump: images from their guided tour

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