Reading with Google »
So I'm trying the new Google Reader, and I'll say that it seems to have promise. Unfortunately, that's about it, as it's really slow. What I can say is that the interface seems nice and simple, the reading speed is good, and there are some nice keyboard shortcuts too. The problem as of this writing is that it takes impossibly long to load anything, most items don't offer any response (Peter says that importing is running slowly and you don't have a status bar) and there are a large number of server errors - either the little message kind within a larger page or the big message kind that takes up the whole page.
What I do like: It looks like you can add "labels" to feeds, and then select by label what you want to read, similar to tagging at other services. That's cool. The actual feed-reading interface is pretty nice and clean looking. There are integrated actions with both your Gmail account and your Blogger account. The sort actions for both feeds and items within the feeds seems good too. I'm not sure about the whole read and unread concept, as I need to wait for the Reader to pick up some new feeds so I can see what it looks like. More later.
