Emptying Google Reader - 07.06.08


The (screencast) video embedded here is 7.4MB (click the little icon on the left of the volume control to enlarge). The original video is 1MB in WMV format.

Finally got around to empty my overwhelmed Google Reader which has OVER 9000 unread items. Well, I don't really know the exactly figure* of the unread items, but it should be pretty close to 9000, or perhaps it was indeed OVER 9000, given that the feeds from Flickr alone has 2102 items (most of them were tagged with "google") and the items in the "mark-as-read" folder usually have at least twice/thrice as much as Flickr.

Took me a bit over 3 hours to go through all 3829 of them that I didn't "mark as read" right away. To be honest, it was quite boring, but there are a couple of really interesting posts from the "Googler" folder and from the Flickr blog that posts collections of amazing photos from the site itself (of course, uploaded by its members).

empty google reader - no unread items

Yihaa!

* This helped me figure out that Google Reader doesn't include items that were "mark as read" into Google Reader's Trends.

Comments

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That screencast is so cool. What software do use for that? Have you heard of swurl.com ?

Carey - 07.07.08 #

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I use Windows Media Encoder. [link: microsoft.com]

Will checkout that site later, looks a bit like FriendFeed. [link: friendfeed.com]

Haochi - 07.07.08 #