I have been obsessed with Google Reader since it was released back in 2005, but I have never received an actual physical manifestation of my obsession.
Today I received a letter in the mail from the Google Reader team, awarding me the Platinum Badge for reading over 133,700 items since I signed up for the Google Reader. What was originally one of Google’s ever-crafty April Fool’s jokes (Google Reader Advantage™) turned into quite a mad dash for the badges, as they ran out of them in just 27 minutes.
In that post, the team decided to post at some interesting Google Reader usage statistics, most of which make me feel better about my Google Reader usage. Google Reader doesn’t provide lifetime trends, but I can tell you that from my 311 subscriptions, I have read 14,745 items in the last 30 days. Read is a bit of an overstatement however, since I only read the headlines of most of those articles. And those that I do read get sent to Instapaper.
Either way, thanks Google Reader Team. You guys rock.
