Josh is going to try Google Reader for a week, and has linked to posts from Gina at LifeHacker and Matt Cutts at Google about switching. I'm really quite tempted to try again with it, as it does sound good. Not that I'm at all unhappy with Bloglines, and the little improvements they keep making are going well.

Only problem is that it's difficult to switch until I'm all caught up on the reading, and right now, I have 1521 unread items in Bloglines. Hmm...

(This is more for the benefit of Bloglines themselves than for anyone else, but might be of interest to any other Bloglines users...)

[bloglines freedbacking]

The recent changes at Bloglines look pretty damn good to me, on the whole - a couple of things could be improved...

• As Josh mentioned, the 'are you sure' prompt when marking everything read is great - I've done that accidentally a couple of times, with over 2000 unread items, and just ended up losing everything. It doesn't seem entirely reliable yet - I daren't try it, but my wife has tried it a couple of times, and only got prompted once. There might just be a threshold before it kicks in, though - no point in warning you if you're only going to be marking ten items read. An option to turn it off would probably be useful to some people, though - I imagine some people always read their feeds that way, and the prompt could get annoying. Even better would be an undo button so you can undo your last action - quickly unmarking the things you just marked read.

The Bloglines Plumber is here at the moment, so I can't get to any of my feeds. It feels almost like the whole Internet has fallen over at first - since it's the way I get pretty much all of my information. I've just taken the chance to go through all the stuff I had sitting in open tabs in Firefox, waiting to be looked at - might as well make some use of the Plumbe