Google Reader for managing mailing lists

I used to use bloglines. A lot. But now I've converted over to Google Reader. It's good. It's fast, I really like the way it tracks what I've read. Yes, yes, search would be good. Yes, I know it's being worked on.

But one thing that I haven't seen or heard of in the pipeline is mailing list reading.

I like the reader interface for reading mailing lists. I want to be able to subscribe to a list with a login+listname@reader.google.com. There are some lists that are more-or-less read-only. If I really wanted to post to them, I'd go to my gmail account and write it. Or perhaps Reader would have a reply-to feature that could pop up a compose window.

Alternatively, if google mail could generate RSS feeds based on specific tags (at least one tag, but multi-tag would be better), then I could subscribe to that in Reader, and we wouldn't have to change anything in Reader.

As I May Think...: How the read/write web was lost...

Bob Wyman writes about how he developed a "WWW equivalent system" that ran on VAX. He discusses how the selling of an idea changes the original idea - sometimes for the worst.

He explains that the web became mostly read only because the first client interfaces had to solve particular subsets of the information sharing/collaboration meme.He hopes that the growth of Wikis and blogs rectifies the issue. But he doesn't make it clear how the original read/write web compares with the current developments with wikis and blogs.

Read more at bobwyman.pubsub.com/mai...

CSS Tabbed Menus at exploding-boy.com

Tabbed menus in CSS

Read more at exploding-boy.com/image...

Necronomicon rip-off

http://ravensblight.com/Book.htm referenced from BoingBoing is a ripoff from a limited edition cover for Evil Dead, y'know the first movie in the Army of Darkness saga.

lazy git

http://rootburn.com is interesting.

This is something I'd put on a "to-watch" list.

wish I would spend a few minutes doing a tutorial on blogging. Sheesh.

Interesting times are a coming...