Miscellany 26 Jan 2007 08:15 am
For Beth: How to use an RSS Reader
1. Google “Google reader” and get the web address
2. Watch the very good video of the guy at the desk explain it in layman’s terms.
3. Sign up
4. Go to your favorite “reads” and see if they have an RSS feed on their sidebar (some have it at the bottom and some don’t have it at all). Click on “subscribe”. Choose “google reader” as your service.
5. Bookmark your google reader page so you can just go right there, all at once each day. On the left of the page will be the list of your subscribed blogs and they will be in bold if there are new posts.
6. What you’ve eliminated: the time it takes to go one by one through sites that haven’t updated!
on 26 Jan 2007 at 12:08 pm 1.Joel said …
If you’re using Firefox you can click the orange RSS icon in the URL bar and subscribe that way as well (offers Firefox’s own reader in addition to several RSS bookmark services like Google). IE6 has no RSS built in and IE7 will read feeds but doesn’t offer subscriptions.
on 27 Jan 2007 at 6:26 am 2.Beth said …
It’s all a new language for me, but I’ll try soon to watch the helpful guy at the desk. Thanks so much!
on 02 Sep 2007 at 8:15 pm 3.Blogging About Blogging » Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Feed? said …
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