Mobile News Reader

I found a blog that I really like and so now I want a news reader to let me know when to check for new posts.  I don't like having it on my main desktop computer because I end up wasting too much time just goofing around but on my Android phone I don't care because I am usually just wasting time standing in line or something anyway.

I looked at Google's reader, but Google does a lot of things right, but they have made a huge twisted tangled mess for me. This happened when they bought a couple of other websites that I was already using, not that big of a deal, but I also started using real money on some of their stuff. So I have google accounts that I randomly use and log in an out of all the time, even from public computers. So I am not real keen about having putting my credit card information on these google account.

So I have my Google accounts that I started with, then I have the Google accounts that I acquired by them buying up companies, then I have the google accounts that I have financial transactions with, and there were a few google accounts that I was forced to create for strange unknown reasons. The bottom line is I have a whole bucket full of Google accounts, some I use, most I don't, and each time I change from say Google search, to the reader, to anything else I have to sign into a new account.  This makes most of the stuff Google has unusable for me.

I have figured out a cleaver way to actually use Gmail, because I like it so much. What I do is I use the Chrome browser, but I never log into Gmail with it. I use FireFox for Gmail and then I never use FireFox for anything else. That way FireFox stays logged into my Google Gmail account, and then if I want to fight with Google over passwords to do something we fight on Chrome. If your just starting out now and you don't have a Google account and you don't care about security, then lucky you.
You probably won't have the headaches I do, logging in and out of dozens of Google accounts all day.

So I signed up for the google reader on my Android and then checked my Google email, and of course it changed google accounts on me. So I am don't with Google reader on my Android, I am not going to do the same thing where I log in and out all day long.

I downloaded Pulse News in the Android Market place, but it would not install, possibly because I have Android 2.0 not sure?

Searching for another way to use a feed reader on my phone, I try some more.

Yahoo Mobile, it is really bad. The main screen is just cut off and no way to access it. It looks like the just locked my browser to the left side of a full page.  Pretty worthless to me.

After looking through several dozen news readers, it looks like most web based news readers go out of business within a year. So there are a lot of unused domain names out there if you want to start one, and it looks like I am going to have to see if I can figure out a way to get google's news reader to work for me.