Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions for my LJ feed problem with Bloglines. I’m currently trying out Google Reader, and I like it so far. It’s got a bunch of handy features, and a slick interface, and being that it’s very similar to Gmail (which I use), it feels very comfortable and familiar even though it’s new to me. We’ll see how well it works; so far it seems to be finding all of the LJ feeds I keep track of.

One cool thing Google Reader offers is a shared items page, which allows you to mark posts you find noteworthy and share them with your friends. You can see my shared items page here. Right now, it’s just got two posts I marked to test the feature. I noticed the shared items page also features an RSS feed of its own, so you can subscribe to the feed of my shared items, which would be, in essence, a “best of the blogosphere” according to me.