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I'm not known to be a quick switcher. The reason is usually because switching means learning anew, and I'm a slow learner. And I usually am not motivated to learn new ways of doing things that I already know how to do the old way.

This put me on the backside of the adoption curve. And sometimes I become the last ones leaving a tool. And that's fine with me. That's why I haven't switched to Macs (although being surrounded by a bunch of MacBook Pros does have its effect. (id o = [[NSObject alloc] init])). That's why I haven't switched to Ubuntu from Fedora Core (although the inevitable is fast approaching). That's why I'm still watching over-the-air television on a low-def set, etc.

So in the Bloglines vs. Google Reader race, I've stuck with Bloglines.com, for no other reason than that I already know how Bloglines.com works. However I've had some issues with Bloglines.com lately, one I already mentioned 49 days ago (which, come to think of it, might have been fixed already because I haven't experienced the problem recently), and another that I haven't mentioned here, but reported to Bloglines.com. This other problem causes Firefox to spin to 100% CPU (50% on my hyperthreading box) on Windows and not to exit even when the close button is clicked (the Firefox window will go away, but the process remain running at 100% CPU).

Being the conservative that I am, I will try running both Bloglines.com and Google Readers at the same time. Actually Dean's comment the other day prompted me to add Google Reader to my Firefox home pages.

So I'll be using Bloglines.com and Google Reader in parallel for the next few weeks. And I'll decide whether to switch at the end.

A few questions I have right away are:

1. Is there a Google Reader subscription bookmarklet?
2. Can Google Reader give me a list of my subscriptions so that I can include them in my blogroll?
3. How do you "mark all as read" in Google Reader?