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[faustus]

I subscribe via lj to two Guardian feeds: their general largely news one, and the books one. I tend to right click to follow up a story, and it fills me in with material I might not catch on their hideously designed webpage and certainly not see on the book pages (the blog seeming to consist of self-evident manifest bollox written by trolls of one shades or another, sample subject, "Why has no one ever written a novel about a whale?")

Last week the Guardian newsfeed switched from headline-and-a-gobbet to entire articles, saving me the need to click through but meaning I have to do a lot more scrolling. Now the book feed has adverts. Is this enough for me to unsubscribe?

Nearly. We'll see.

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Now the book feed has adverts

It does? I've not seen any.

Ah. You do it via lj. I use Google Reader.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I did consider going via Google Reader or back to my NetVibes account (or wahtever it is called) but I'd rather have it in one place (or can I read LJ on Google Reader?)

And does it deliver long stories rather than headlines?

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

It does deliver the long stories, where they are available.

I took all my blog feeds off LJ because it suits me better to keep people-interaction and other kinds of reading separate. There are so many feeds that the people got lost in all the scrolling.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I'm probably not as feed hungry as you; I liked the old way of headline which would allow me to open another window to read later (or read then if given time), but having the whole story on LiveJournal does make it hard to pick out the people (I similarly came off NaNoWriMo because it was making me too whelmed.

Of course, I don't want to click through to read an LJ entry... Dammit, I don't want to use two readers.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

*skims your friends page*

Could just be that my browser suppresses ads more effectively than yours, because I'm not seeing any there either.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I was going to say I use Google Chrome which might have An Issue in suppressing GoogleAds - but then realised am at work and thus using hack! spit! Internet Exploder. Will check at home.

Meanwhile, am now advertising a Coventry taxi firm (and a Folkestone restaurant) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmbutler/1970281433/) ...