Google Reader

I'm not too bothered by the changes made to Google Reader, but it got me thinking about what I have read on it over the last 5 years.

Time for a chart...

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The top sources are Craftzine, Roomthily, Quipsologies, Design work life and Where the lovely things are.

For some reason this only includes just over 1000 starred items, while my google account says I have 3212. Never mind, this is just a first stab. After downloading my data using the link provided on the site, I used a json to xml converter to put the data in a more readable format. That went into excel, and then it was a case of moving things around a bit and getting rid of all the extraneous columns. It's not perfect, but I'll keep trying.

I would have like to have looked at the tags I've used as well, as I think this would be quite revealing - but I don't seem to be able to get these cleaned up very well in my data file. Once I clean them up, I'll analyse.

I should also point out that I have slightly odd behaviour when it comes to starring items. I intermittently go back though and either read the item, bookmark on delicious or save images to visualizeus. I haven't done that for a while so there are some starred items which will eventually disappear.

Update: just been looking and the feed seems to be limited to 1000 records, so now downloaded all the data (using this helpful link) - I'll be back with more number crunching soon