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I wanted to write about this earlier in the week, but was unable to. I was kind of getting used to the plain River of News, but had to take out some of the more busier feeds which I only care to browse once in a while. Also the remembering where you were in earthlinkReader didn’t work out that well much of the time, as you change pages, content would seem to be pushed back a page, and you end up reading the same articles again.
I’ve been using Google Reader lately more than my bloglines, or earthlinkReader accounts. It displays all my feeds properly, has a lot of nifty AJAX stuff, multiple viewing options(read, unread, starred), keyboard shortcuts, imported every feed from my bloglines OPML (no option for URL importing, file only) and converted my folders into Tags. I can’t figure out or at least think I am able to create any new Tags for grouping, or reading lists without a new import. hmm.
Another thing irking me about earthlinkReader the traffic usage on my server, each of these hosts grabs my blog feed 2 to 3 times an hour and does not use gzip or compression as other good bots do. The next highest usage on my server is at 6 MB since the begining of this month.

myscheduler-bayberry.pas.sa.earthlink.net ? 366 366 80.60 MB 15 Oct 2006 - 18:10
myscheduler-petit.pas.sa.earthlink.net ? 356 356 78.41 MB 15 Oct 2006 - 18:32

Last month’s traffic stats.

myscheduler-bayberry.pas.sa.earthlink.net ? 1043 1043 230.74 MB 30 Sep 2006 - 19:28
myscheduler-petit.pas.sa.earthlink.net ? 1028 1028 227.40 MB 30 Sep 2006 - 23:30

UPDATE: Google’s Feed eating bot uses compression and 304 codes to consume less bandwidth.

px.ns1.net 72.14.199.78 - - [16/Oct/2006:09:27:42 -0700] "GET //feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 26150 "-" "Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)" mod_deflate: In:229775 Out:26132:11pct.
px.ns1.net 72.14.199.79 - - [16/Oct/2006:16:35:14 -0700] "GET //feed/ HTTP/1.1" 304 20 "-" "Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)" mod_deflate: In:- Out:-:-pct.