I’ve been having a problem with Bloglines lately and I wonder if I’m the only one. As illustrated in the attached screenshot, I have feeds in which I’m marked one or more items as “keep new” and that is accurately reflected in the feed’s title on the left. However, when I open that feed, the kept items are not being displayed. Am I alone? Is there a solution?
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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5 Replies to “Bloglines problem”
I don’t have that problem anymore, but always had it with one particular feed. Never got it fixed and finally unsubscribed (for a variety of reasons).
Happened to me with three blogs last month (that use different software and there wasn’t any other logical connection between the three) and I couldn’t remember for the life of me what I had marked “keep new.” I finally ended up just unsubscribing and resubscribing in frustration because I couldn’t get rid of the thing that said I had saved posts. Bloglines has had a lot of annoying quirks like this lately, but I haven’t really found any Web-based aggregator I like better.
That happend to me once so now what I do is go the article and bookmark it either to the Browser or to Del.icio.us that way I can always get to it. Oh By the way I havent tried FURL yet, but one feature they have is that it saves actual copies of a site so even if the page changes you still have access to the article that you save. Hope this helps. Frankie
I am having the same problem. It started in August when Bloglines did something with their servers. Only one of my feeds ever got fixed to that I can see all the stuff it shows as saved. It is totally irritating. I e-mail Bloglines at least once a week, and all I ever get is their automated message.
I had the same problem. It seemed the post I had marked “new” was maybe deleted or moved on the blog(?). That’s a theory. Anyway, unsubscribing and then subscribing to the blog solved the problem.
I don’t have that problem anymore, but always had it with one particular feed. Never got it fixed and finally unsubscribed (for a variety of reasons).
Happened to me with three blogs last month (that use different software and there wasn’t any other logical connection between the three) and I couldn’t remember for the life of me what I had marked “keep new.” I finally ended up just unsubscribing and resubscribing in frustration because I couldn’t get rid of the thing that said I had saved posts. Bloglines has had a lot of annoying quirks like this lately, but I haven’t really found any Web-based aggregator I like better.
That happend to me once so now what I do is go the article and bookmark it either to the Browser or to Del.icio.us that way I can always get to it. Oh By the way I havent tried FURL yet, but one feature they have is that it saves actual copies of a site so even if the page changes you still have access to the article that you save. Hope this helps.
Frankie
I am having the same problem. It started in August when Bloglines did something with their servers. Only one of my feeds ever got fixed to that I can see all the stuff it shows as saved. It is totally irritating. I e-mail Bloglines at least once a week, and all I ever get is their automated message.
I had the same problem. It seemed the post I had marked “new” was maybe deleted or moved on the blog(?). That’s a theory. Anyway, unsubscribing and then subscribing to the blog solved the problem.