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I saw a few posts about the latest version of the Google Reader and thought I would take it for a spin. The first thing I did was export all of my RSS feeds from NetNewsWire(NNW) to an OPML file. I then imported that file into Google Reader. All 77 of my feeds imported correctly, but I did lose the groupings that I had setup in NNW. Once I went in and categorized everything in to folders to match what I had in NNW I was set.

Google Reader is an excellent feed reader, no doubt about it. If I wasn’t already using such an excellent product as NNW I am sure this would be my new reader, hands down. But I am spoiled by NNW and looking down to my Dock to see if there are any new items to read. For now I am going to try to just live with the Google Reader for a week or so and see how it does.

I really like how Google has been creating all of these products and offering them to us for free. I think they are excellent and each one reduces my reliance on a single computer. But I have not stayed with Google for all applications. I did move away from Blogger to WordPress because I think it is a better blogging service, and it remains to be seen if Google Reader can replace NNW for me. I also won’t pretend to understand why Google is purchasing YouTube since they already had their own video service, but maybe it was not as much about bringing YouTube in to Google as it was to keep it away from others. Time will tell.

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