fine whine

So I'm checking my Gmail today and I notice a little button that says "ATOM" down on the left side. Could it be, I wondered, that Google has created an aggregatable inbox? This could be really, really cool.

Except that it doesn't really work for me. I use Bloglines to read my feeds, and it cannot load the feed. Why not, you ask?

Because it's a https link. Presumably I need to have my newsreader/browser logged into Gmail at the time to be able to get the feed. Which means that I'd just as likely have my inbox open in the background, which automatically refreshes every so many minutes anyway.

So nice try, Google, but you're going to need to go back to the drawing board on this one. Why not give me an encrypted URL feed that I can use in a normal newsreader? Or am I being too picky?