My Love/Hate Relationship with Google Reader

I will admit when I started working on the Scopus assignment, I figured I would be done in an hour, an hour and a half tops. However, three and a half hours later, when I was still working on it, I was not too happy. Since I wanted to make sure the resources coming up were about my topics, I made sure to read over the abstracts. I also wanted to make sure that I did not cite the same source twice, so after I had gathered my 100 citations from Scopus I went back through (on Refworks) and made sure there were no repeats. I found several repeat entries and deleted them. Then it was back to Scopus to find several new sources to replace the duplicates. I repeated this same process with Google Scholar. Finally, I finished collecting all of my resources and was ready to go to onto what I considered the easiest part. Boy, was I wrong, again! Using Google Docs was a breeze, I uploaded my word document and quickly shared it with Dr. Tomer. Then I went to use Google Reader, figuring I would be done in a few minutes. I was able to subscribe to several Scopus RSS feeds, but could not figure out how to share all of them with Dr. Tomer. I read directions on how to share material, however, when I tried their “easy” way, all it allowed me to share was one piece of information, not the entire RSS feed. So, next I put everything into folders and made them public and sent out invites for people to view my profile. I sent an invitation to myself, but never received it on my other e-mail. I then e-mailed my boyfriend an invite, since he has a g-mail account, again it was never received. Frustrated, I took a ten minute break, to calm myself down, before I attempted anything else. When I returned to Google Reader, I was still clueless on what I should do, but I tried to work with it. Next, I decided to e-mail my folder to Dr. Tomer, it worked once and then Google Reader proceeded to tell me that it could not send the e-mails. Now if this had been a cartoon, smoke would have poured out of my ears from how angry I was. So I logged off of Google Reader and attempted to log back on, only this time it told me I was unable to get back onto my account. This was when I gave up for the day. I am about ready to make another attempt to get on Google Reader, we’ll see how this goes.
From this project, I have not only learned how to actually use RefWorks, but I am also able use Google Docs. Google Reader is another story, but hopefully with some practice I will master this new form of technology! Hope everyone else is not having as much trouble as I am.