Having graduated from blog virgin to blog neophyte my ability to compare product lines is fairly rudimentary. But here goes...
Google Reader does not appeal to me aesthetically. The left sidebar navigation seems like it was just slapped together without much care for appearances. I also feel like the "trends" section is completely useless (maybe I am missing something - do other people care about these statistics?). The one area that I felt was superior to Bloglines was the ease of retrieving all past items in a blog without having to open the actual blog.
BlogLines has a much more appealing look and feel. The tabbed navigation on the left hand side seems easier to manage. The things I did find more difficult were using the hotkeys and finding the all items display function (it is there just not as easy to locate).
I think either reader would do the job, I just like the look of BlogLines better. That's my .02.
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You can add my 2 cents to yours, and we can contribute 4 cents toward a redesign of the Google Reader interface. Maybe I'm just accustomed to Bloglines, but Google Reader has zero visual appeal.
I agree with you on the ease of view past posts, but I still see no compelling reason to switch my existing accounts from Bloglines to Google Reader.
I happen to be one of the few, the proud, and the nerdly who do use the statistics on a daily basis to track relevancy trends. :-)
Since I have an enormous amount of data coming in about the Aramaic language, and I mark and star things that are relevant to it, the statistics can show me some interesting trends in what's going on on the internet concerning the language.
Yes... I'm such a nerd...
Peace,
-Steve
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