I’m an information junkie. I enjoy knowing what’s going on in the world. The problem with being an information whore is sorting through the dribble that I don’t want to know about. For instance, sport scores, don’t care, not even a little bit. But the latest information about some new software that will seemingly make my life easier and/or better, I’m all over it.
The other problem with being an information enthusiast is classifying my interests. I have many interests and I don’t have time to scour different sources that cater to those specific interests everyday. Which is why I use Google Reader. It’s simple, free, easy, and I can sort all the areas of my interest in one spot and get the information my little heart desires.
Here are just some of the areas of interest that I stay updated on through Google Reader: Anything Apple related, the art and craft of writing and publishing, faith and Christianity, news, Photoshop and Lightroom, Ruby on Rails, website design (HTML, CSS), music, and friends with sites. Whew! I’m tired just listing all of those.
So already being in a platonic relationship with Google Reader, when I switched to the iPhone and discovered that Reader was formatted for it, my heart swooned with delight. Well, now there is a new beta version of Reader for the iPhone which is even better. You can point your iPhone to: http://www.google.com/reader/i/ and see all the beautiful Reader goodness. I like the UI updates, they’re clean, pretty, and work more like the regular Reader, allowing the starring or sharing of any item. Also, read items don’t disappear from view like they used to, a big improvement.
The Google folk have a blog for Google Reader and have posted some more information about the new beta version for the iPhone.
