It’s particularly frustrating because I think Reader does have a much slicker interface and some other features (particularly tagging) that I would love to make use of. I’m just not sure I’m willing to give up the public nature of Bloglines. (I’d say close to half of the blogs I’m subscribed to I’ve found my exploring other Bloglines users’ public page.)

They are not mutually exclusive, you can use them both, with mo pain, since you can import/export OPML from each. I keep BL for the sole purpose of generating a blog roll.

But back to the for: tag… I have been thinking it weird that when you for: a link to someone, you never know if they do anything with it, but in a way, that it makes it even more of a gift. I would like it if del.icio.us would keep the notes when I decide to “save” something for:ed me, as I like to have annotations with my tagged sites.

To that end, I started for: tagging your way. Tell me to stop.

And FYI, you can hide your feeds in Google Reader; the only ones visible are folders ot tags you explicitly share. I have my secret naked cat blog feeds hee hee.

The only thing Google Reader lacks is a way to publicly share your blog feed list. Reader rocks so much more than Bloglines

Gardner, Exactly. I’m fascinated by the “unspoken conversation” that we all partake in my lurking in each others’ online spaces. . .It’s that connectedness of language and conversation that weaves through us all.

Jeff, I can’t really warm up to Google Reader. Perhaps I need to give it another go. Oh, and there are some feeds I hide in my Bloglines account. A girl has to have some privacy, you know.

The larger idea, however, is an intriguing one, though I’m struck by the fact that I have trouble keeping up with my own information feed, let alone someone else’s. Still, I would think that a quick glance at the way that an individual chose to organize their blogs for reading would provide a kind of snapshot of how he/she perceived that portion of the online world.

Of course, there’s the possibility that glimpsing inside someone else’s view of the online world would make for awkward, not enlightened, face-to-face combinations. I think I might want to explain why I choose to read some of the blogs that I do….

The larger notion of living in someone else’s richly stocked information feed is fascinating. Dense conversational allusiveness can create powerful bonds.