{"id":2735,"date":"2010-02-11T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:29:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:29:36","slug":"feed-reader-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Feed reader question"},"content":{"rendered":"

… because these days we’re all using Web2.0 technology to read websites, right?<\/em><\/p>\n

I have dumped Bloglines as my Web v2.0 Reader Of Choice.<\/p>\n

See that blue shivering pile in the corner of the garden?<\/p>\n

That’s Bloglines that is.<\/p>\n

The replacement is Google Reader.<\/p>\n

Now some folk might tut and shake their head at my tardiness in adopting Google Reader as my Web v2.0 Reader Of Choice, but the reason I didn’t adopt it earlier comes flooding back to me, now that I’m using the product.<\/p>\n

Feed extracts.<\/p>\n

A couple of websites I read show up as full-length articles in Bloglines, but they are only reproduced in extract<\/em> format in Google Reader.<\/p>\n

And yet they’re both reading *the same* RSS feeds.<\/p>\n

I don’t get it.<\/p>\n

So I have just typed the URI (not the feed address) for one of those websites in to the Google Reader subscription bar and guess what?<\/p>\n

Yep, I’m now getting the full articles in Google Reader.<\/p>\n

So what I have here, in my Google Reader account, are two subscriptions to the same RSS feed in the same Google Reader product, yet one subscription shows an extract<\/em> of the original, while the other subscription shows the full Monty.<\/p>\n

WTF?<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s an easy fix; I just follow the same process for the half-dozen other RSS feeds that were being truncated by Google Reader, delete the extract feeds and Robert’s your mother’s brother – job done.<\/p>\n

I know this RSS reader stuff is so much easier than having to click through to every single website one wants to read on a daily basis, just to check if anything has updated, I just don’t understand where the gremlin in Google Reader’s functionality is.<\/p>\n

Anyway, bye-bye Bloglines and welcome to my bosom Google Reader.<\/p>\n

And to celebrate, here’s my word of the day:<\/p>\n

Tit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… because these days we’re all using Web2.0 technology to read websites, right? I have dumped Bloglines as my Web v2.0 Reader Of Choice. See<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}