As alluded to above I tried and shied away from subscribing to a news service, being as I am a skimmer of news rather than a devourer of every scrap. Most newspapers offer 'latest news feeds', but who reads every little thing? Instead I went in search of some blogs or columns of interest. Two sites I visit for my sports fix provided a contrast. www.theworldgame.com.au, SBS's soccer site offered only a feed 'subscribe to world game blogs'. Of these there are many and I only wanted one in particular. Bogus. www.cricinfo.com on the other hand, a leading cricket news site had a link which explained their various feeds and in addition to an array of options for latest news either global, for a particular country or even player, also allowed you to subscribe to all their blogs as a whole or any individual one. Excellent.
So I did, and now Google reader happily feeds me the Ask Steven column in which people ask cricketing questions of a quirky statistical nature and they are answered, all of which I find to be of interest.
A similar question of narrowing down feeds also occured in a comparison of the two leading Melbourne newspapers. The Age, sadly again offered only general feeds, while the Herald Sun, is an inferior paper with superior feeds. So my experiences backed up my previous comments in post #15. However I am very confident that as this technology becomes more widely known and utilised this problem will begin to disappear.
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