infundibulum

Am I the only one who’s starting to feel like Bloglines is becoming, uh, work?

I appreciate the fact that I can get through a lot of sites with it, but lately it seems like all I’ve been doing is going there to see if sites are updated and middle-clicking in Firefox so I can read them in the background. Yeah, it saves time, but I used to use Bloglines to read stuff.

The frames interface drives me bonkers. It’s easy to forget which blog you’re reading once you’ve scrolled down a few posts, and the left-hand frame gives you no indication (no highlighting, nothing). Plus, the font they use is awful. Tiny.

And half the time stuff wrap within the right pane. What to do then? There’s just no way to read the content, aside from mousing about like nuts, scrolling back and forth. So again, I end up opening the site in the background.

I love Bloglines, I’ve used it for over a year, and let’s face it, you can’t beat the price — but I think it’s time they thought about a design overhaul. NewsGator Online is a bit nicer in layout terms (no frames!), but they have the same blog-title-highlighting issue, and anyways, my 200-feed’s worth of Bloglines inertia isn’t likely to budge any time soon.

Meg Hourihan is (kinda) returning to tech. I’m a fan. She’s learning Ruby too, just like moi.

However, she probably did not eat dried pasta with 2 spoonfuls of spaghetti because that was all that was left in her fridge. That’s what I did.

Check out Halley Suitt’s interview on IT Conversations with Meg — the inside story on the birth of Blogger… it was originally called, “Stuff.”

Then there IS potential for, uh, what’s in my head.