A Review of Google Reader

photo taken from The Wardman Wire

I have used Google Reader for a week now. No, that was a lie. I had a look at it four times maybe, but you cannot say that I really used it. I am very fond of Google News, but Google Reader is just a bit too much.

I can appreciate the idea. I quite like to have MY news on one page. My first impression was: WOW. This semester I read much more online news than newspapers. But I really do not like going on different websites and find my way through that information jungle. There is just too much news and I can't really find my way through it.

With Google Reader, at least, I have everything at one glance. I now have a list of World News from the BBC, bits and pieces from The Guardian, anti-racist coverage from indymedia and blogs that I subscribed to. So, there is a way into the jungle.

But it is still not a European forest. It is just too much information. When you think you finally scrolled down to the end of the page, there is more news to come and more and more and more and then you just give up. It only shows you the news stories that have been updated at last, but that doesn't mean that they are the most important.