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Maybe I'm daft (ok, we all know I am daft), but what new features, really new features does Google Buzz bring to the table? For the end user, it really seems like something that could have been cobbled together with a clever Greasemonkey script, which is an unusually low bar for a Google product.

It just pulls Google Reader into GMail. Oh, sure, there's some location-aware nish-nosh and something about better thumbnails, but the conversations I see on Buzz are identical to the ones I was seeing on Reader. A while back, Reader even let you put up aimless updates, basically creating Buzz without the buzz.

With pre-Buzz Reader and some simple RSS magic, you could even pull in and share you Twitter feed, your Flickr photos, and whatever the hell else they're now trumpeting, and you already saw updates pre-selected by your friends and colleagues. Buzz just pulled together (quite nicely, I might add) a lot of elements that were already there for power users and forced them down the world's unsuspecting throat.

Still, it's not a bad move at all.

I really don't know how I ended up being subscribed to 1369 RSS feeds, but I did. A lot of it is probably Twitter feeds, which I subscribed to using Dave Winer's Twitter OPML exporter because I wanted a backup of this stuff.

So when I went to clean up my RSS folders today (how geeky can you get?), using Google Reader's organize function crashed by browser and almost the OS. Reboot, and it barely pulls the page up, but only about a third of it. The rest: The abyss.
Google Reader only scales so well: And then, the gaping void.

In other news, I've been hacking away at SpareChangeNews.net. Still a long way to go, but we should be rolling out a calendar system (yeah!), slide shows, and more in the next week or so.

Also, most of my blogging is over at ITKnowledgeExchange's IT Watch Blog now, so if tech news is your thing, try over there instead.