#6 and #7 - RSS and Newsreaders

Have been using Bloglines for ages so thought I'd try to export my feeds to Google Reader, easy enough. I'll try it out for a bit but I am so used to Bloglines it all felt a bit weird, and I'm really not sure about the function that marks posts as read as you scroll down the page. Subscribed and unsubscribed, all works as expected. Set up Google Reader as a widget on my iGoogle page, which is pretty cute, though I do have concerns about putting all eggs in the Google basket as its omnipresence online is starting to feel a bit totalitarian - and speaking of RSS feeds, The Googlization of Everything is an interesting one to follow. As the web itself increasingly becomes the platform for applications rather than the PC, Google is already the next Microsoft and more. Thinking about platforms, it also occurred to me that there should be a good RSS feed reader in Facebook, since it transformed itself into an application environment as well as a social network, but surprisingly there's not, apart from the brave attempts of a lone high school student to create one...

But I digress. Time to wrap up, tried the EBSCO feed and seemed to work OK though I am a bit sceptical about how it will work on an ongoing basis from an authentication perspective. We shall see.