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I moved my feeds over from Shrook to Google Reader. Turns out when time is thin, not even smart folders can find the gems in feed chaos.

Very conveniently Google released a beta of their new feed reader, and having used it for a couple of days it rocks. Two major nuisances though:

1. I can’t rename tags / folders. Having put ten feeds into a folder, I have to load each one by one to move them under a different folder. I’ve talked before about the need to provide hierarchy along tags, but this “tags are folders or maybe vice versa” is confusing.
2. There’s no search. Yes. A Google product. Without search.

Otherwise Google Reader is very, very good. At least as good as the desktop applications available. Feed readers are a new breed of software so it’s logical this is where web apps could catch on most quickly.