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A few months ago I discovered the joy of feed aggregators. I am not a techno wiz, nor am I a huge geek, but the idea that I can go to one place and read all my regular blogs is exciting to me. This made Josh giggle because, being a software engineer, he has known about feed aggregators for years and years and I am almost 25 years old and only now discovering ways to make my life easier.

My first aggregator was Newgator.com, recommended by a friend. And it worked fine. Except that it really, really slows my browser down, both at work and at home. I have no idea why. Like I said, I’m not a wiz at this stuff. So today was a slow day at work, so I finally did twenty-seconds of research and decided it was time to switch to a new aggregator. I switched to Google Reader. I don’t love the idea of this, because I have a lot of stuff on Google servers (hundreds of photos and hundreds of posts from an old blog, not to mention thousand of emails) and I don’t completely trust. In fact, I’ve been thinking of moving all my stuff off Google, and I started with this blog. (Moved from blogspot to wordpress and haven’t looked back since.) Nonetheless, I can already tell that the Google Reader runs a lot faster than Newsgator. I don’t have to sit there and wait  every time I want to add a feed. It’s nice so I guess I’ll stick with it for awhile, until I have another slow day at work.