I was able to recover my last post thanks to the help of Gordon Weakliem. He's the one that pointed out that it was still in Google Reader. This was my first time checking this tool out.
I still prefer Bloglines layout, which is a lot easier to read. Google's interfaces always come across as, well, *hacked together–like the people can't be bothered to add spacing between items in a list so they're easier to read. Google does have, though, a really good handle on how to use server and client resources, via Ajax.
Just like with Google Maps, Google Reader uses pagination–using Ajax calls to automatically load items so that as you scroll, new items are appended to the end in a never ending stream. Yahoo uses this approach, too, but really botches the implementation. Google Reader's use of pagination is exceptional–really a good demonstration of this tricky Ajax functionality.
I still won't use Google Reader because of the interface. However, GR does provide a nice demonstration of pagination next time someone wants to see an example of this technique that works well.
*Geez, Google, work on your interfaces. Primitive Google was chi chi clever at one time, but it's been done to death.
