When Google Reader started to recommend blogs and then some special items for your own personal tastes. I like them. But there is a problem still unresolved for recommendations of blogs, some just keep showing up in that list again and again even everyday. (Google Reader gives your new recommendations everyday)

Recently, I started to read recommended items.


I have problems with it too, that Not interested has no shortcut key, I have to use mouse to click on it after I opened it using o shortcut key, hence I rarely use that function and that would cause the recommendations become less interesting to me.

The other issue is more common for both recommended item and recommended sources, we should have had a blacklist feature something like Never show this source again.

I have very special requirements for feeds I would like to read in Google Reader. First, the feed must not be an excerpt-only feed. Second, the representation of feed must remain a good style in Reader. The opened item in the screenshot above is an example. It's an excerpt and the layout has been removed, and it's not an interested item to me.

And the recommended sources should never give you sources which have no recent items, you will see empty page unless you switch to All items mode. Well, a new option to choose if we want those sources would be great.

Just few thoughts about Google Reader, but wgasa, just use Mark all as read.