"Placeholder" for Google Reader?

illflux — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:53:46 -0800

Many of the feeds I follow have a lot of activity (such as the one for ask.mefi), so by the time I get a chance to look through them, there may be hundreds (thousands?) of items. If I'm not able to get through all of the items at a time, the next time I come back to the feed, I have to scroll through the items I did get to before I can reach the older items. Is there a way to "mark my place" in a feed and skip directly there, rather than having to scroll through all the already-read items? I have my "Feed Settings" set to "sort by newest" and have "In expanded view, mark items as read when you scroll past them" checked in my settings.

I've tried using "sort by oldest," but that only shows posts from within the last 30 days. Depending on how long it's been since I've had a chance to catch up with a feed, this may not be enough.

Perhaps as an alternative, is there a way to make "sort by oldest" show more than 30 days?

Virtual Roads

tweebiscuit — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:22:16 -0800

I just did a Sherlock search for "Diner" in the 60662 zip code. One of the diners, "The Tasty Burger", had an address of "1000 Virtual Road", and Sherlock couldn't provide a map. I Googled the address, and got this -- tons of business that all have that address, many in different cities. What is this? &levelTo reinforce the fact that this is not an actual street: this map shows the location of Amits Art School to be, apparently, in the exact center of Chicago, as indicated by the placement of the "Chicago" label. Note also that there is no street called "Virtual" in this map.

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"Placeholder" for Google Reader?

Virtual Roads