Google Reader is a step in the right direction, from the people who take a lot of steps in the right direction. Google has based its entire existence on helping us make sense of this mess, and we like it when they stick to that instead of attempting to monetize kids getting shot in the penis with bottle rockets.
Google reader is a very simple gadget; it’s an RSS compiler … like TiVo for your news sites, online music-mags and, of course, critical blogs. While Google Reader will certainly help you keep up on all the information that you already read, it is not going to help thin out the giant mound of information looming just outside your RSS gates.
As an added bonus, you can install an offline version so that when you have connectivity, google will update your feeds right there on you computer so that you can read them, offline, at your leisure. So go ahead, add MItB, Jasper, SuperD, irockiroll and the Times, but don’t forget to head out into that scary, wide, Internet now and then to see what is new.
Now let’s break it down: The Internet is cool because it’s big, and available all the time, in all its infinite glory – so Google takes a step in the right direction by making the Internet smaller and available less of the time.
This is the world you live in.