{"id":69576,"date":"2010-10-07T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/customerthink.com\/5_years_with_google_reader_and_we_are_still_together_yam\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:27:00","slug":"5_years_with_google_reader_and_we_are_still_together_yam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/5_years_with_google_reader_and_we_are_still_together_yam\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Years with Google Reader and we are still together #yam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was tweeting\/yammering with @petahopkins the other day about Bloglines<\/a> and my early days of blogging<\/a> and blog reading. My first serious blog post with Bloglines was on 6 October 2004 but I became an avid reader of other blogs a few months before that using the RSS feed aggregation facilities in Bloglines. These memories have been stirred because Bloglines will close on 1 November 2010.<\/p>\n

During the September semester of 2005 I introduced blogging as an optional, additional assessment for Masters students<\/a>. At this same time, in fact exactly 5 years ago today, I began to try Google Reader and I have been hooked ever since. I was reminded this morning when I brought up Trends link to find:<\/p>\n

Since October 8, 2005<\/strong> you have read a total of 79,983<\/strong> items.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To my surprise that works out at 1333 blog posts a month or about 44 posts a day for 5 years straight! I should have learned something in that time. Of course many posts received only a few seconds of my attention before I hit the trusty ‘j’ key in Google Reader to show the next post in the chronologically ordered stream of posts from a number of feeds. In fact I must be gradually reading less as the figures for the last 30 days are:<\/p>\n

From your 96 subscriptions<\/strong>, over the last 30 days you read 1,174 items<\/strong>, clicked 110 items<\/strong>, starred 2 items<\/strong>, shared 15 items<\/strong>, and emailed 0 items<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The shared items number is interesting as it is a measure of quality and amounts to about 1.5% of all posts. Shared items are flagged to other readers who choose to follow me on Google Reader and more importantly on Google Buzz. In turn I see the shared items of those I choose to follow – a useful way to form a community of like minds.<\/p>\n

Another telling output of the Trends analysis is my tag cloud of the posts I read:<\/p>\n

\"2010-10-08<\/a><\/p>\n

This fairly accurately mirrors the topics that interest me.<\/p>\n

Will I still be using Google Reader in 5 more years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was tweeting\/yammering with @petahopkins the other day about Bloglines and my early days of blogging and blog reading. My first serious blog post with Bloglines was on 6 October 2004 but I became an avid reader of other blogs a few months before that using the RSS feed aggregation facilities in Bloglines. These memories […]","protected":false},"author":6985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}