On one of my blogs, not a “blog” blog, which talks about blogs, but a regular blog that talks about something entirely different, I made a post a few days ago that mentioned Google Reader. In it, I talked about one of the great features of Google Reader is that it has the “trends” option that lets you know how often a feed is updated, how many of the items in the feed you actually read, etc.
Just today, I found out that a techy friend of mine who didn’t know about these features in Google Reader. He was complaining about having so many subscriptions that he couldn’t find good information anymore. He was frustrated that he couldn’t easily sift through all of the feeds to get just the good stuff. He was amazed when I showed him how Google Reader could help him do that.
The purpose of this post isn’t to sing the praises of Google Reader. I’ve already done that twice on two different blogs, albeit from two different angles. This post is instead about the fact that even the most well informed and clever people can miss things, even things that solve their problems. Often, the solution to your problem is right in front of you if you’re willing to dig a little bit deeper or ask the right question of the right person.
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