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By Marilyn Terrell in Book & Lit on Nov 15, 2009 at 5:48 am


SwissMiss discovers that Google Reader offers several sorting options, including this one:

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  1. Miss Cellania
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 6:01 am

    Interesting list! I will have to check out some of your feeds.

  2. Cuprohastes
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 7:12 am

    Seriously - a month after every other tech blog in the western world ran articles about this... you only just discovered Google's Sort by Magic function by accident?
    Given Neatorama basically just posts other blogs about a third of the time, how can you not know this?

  3. Parkylondon
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 7:25 am

    I thinki what's happening is that GReader is showing you the most Liked or Shared items in a given feed. Nice touch with the "Magic" though.

    I am also interested in some of your feeds. Any chance you could publish an OPML feed so we can plug it in to our readers. Perhaps an OPML swap?

    You'll need to filter out the XXXlinksXXX label obv...

  4. Parkylondon
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 7:28 am

    @cuprohastes - I subscribe to a bajillion feeds, including Google's own feeds covering GReader and it's not been mentioned.

  5. cigrainger
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    @Parkylondon, yes it has. Multiple times.

    It's astounding to me that you just 'found this' by accident. This is old, old news that was all over tech blogs.

  6. dev
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 9:23 am

    I also subscribe to a good chunk of the top blogs, and no, it has not been mentioned on the ones I watch - I even confirmed this with a search in google reader. :)

    Don't rag on the blogger just because they didn't spot this right away, or doesn't subscribe to the same set of blogs you do. this isn't slashdot. This is why I subscribe to this blog - it filters a lot of the crap from others down to legitimately neat stuff.

    Thanks for the post, that's cool.

  7. eni
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    I've not seen this before, either. It's a huge internet out there. Seriously. Huge. Missing things like this is NOT as hard as it seems, dude.

  8. Twpk
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    @Parkylondon Nice idea the opml swap... I had been thinking something similar.
    Tt would probably be better if it's just a list of all sites; allowing you to read the blogs before subscribing to them.

  9. ozoozol
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Agree. I hadn't seen mention of this feature before, either. Not saying it wasn't written about, but it flew completely under my radar. Good post.

  10. matt
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    Cut some slack, please. Like what eni said, it is indeed a huge internet.

  11. pwscott
    Nov 16th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

    As this is the first and sometimes the only blog I check, it may be out of date but I'm still getting it. Unlike Google I don't think magic is involved at Neatorama.

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