I have been quite busy with CeBIT, as well as some other projects, these last couple of days, so I have been quite bad with updating the blog. Sorry folks, my bad.

Something interesting to note though – I was looking through my feed statistics just then, and by a rather large margin, Google Desktop is the most popular reader for subscribing to my site. This surprises me a little – I have tried (and since uninstalled) Google Desktop, and it is something I would not consider to be a full-time feed reader.

It might just be me and the way I read feeds, but I would personally limit the use of a reader like GD (which sits as a sidebar or floating in a widget-like fashion) to reading things like news headlines. It is not something that I would use for reading personal blogs.

For my feed reading endeavors, I use the excellent Sage plug-in for the equally excellent Firefox. It works with the live bookmarks feature of the browser, and displays the list of feed names in a sidebar. Clicking on the feed (which displays bold if there are unread entries) takes you to an attractive two-column page with the text of the feed. Simple, brilliant.