Trends
When I’m online I usually live out of Google Reader. I find it to be much more useful than Bloglines if for no other reason than the sparse interface. I love the minimalist approach that Google uses for their products, less is more and all that. I’ve never really cared about my web-reading statistics but curiosity finally forced me to click on the “trends” link in Google Reader. Here is what the Goog says about me:
From your 132 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 14,742 items, starred 19 items, and shared 0 items.
I guess I read a lot but I don’t like to share…also, I read mostly “science” things, followed by “fun” and finally “web.” This is calculated by something to do with tags. Weird that everything I read falls into only three categories.
I’ve trimmed the number of feeds I read significantly but I still find myself up late at night trying to catch up. What really bothers me though is my lack of sharing. I will work on that in the future and post a link to my shared items when I have some.
June 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
You seem to know about all these cool fun features on the web. I hadn’t realized there was a point to that Share link in Google reader. In fact, I hadn’t even noticed the Share feature, LOL. Fun stuff to know!
July 1st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Thanks for turning me on to Google reader. Do I need anything other than Google in life? Now then, when does Google become self-aware?
July 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I was under the assumption that Google already was self-aware…and I for one welcome our new Search Engine Overlords.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Has the search for Sarah Connor begun?
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:51 am
Yeah. I must say for all the “evil empire” rhetoric that gets bandied about google, they do have some kickass applications or at least folks have created some kickass applications using them as a platform. Have you seen some of the stuff that folks have done with google maps?
And, you know, this post now shows that google is better than your mother. They taught you how to share!