In the past I have read a few blogs, very sporadically. This usually happened when a friend would post a link on Facebook, or to an email list. I would casually wander on over and check it out, but never stick around past one or two posts. It was like I was having casual flings with various blogs, but never intrigued enough to settle down.
Then I heard, over and over again, how I should create a blog for my genealogy research. What?! Me?! I know nothing about that stuff, how am I going to figure it all out? Well 3 months of investigation and I was sold. What sold me you ask? Reading other people’s blogs of course.
This leads me to why I am madly in love with Google Reader. Instead of going to each one individually, and having to remember how to get there, I just subscribe using my reader. Anytime one of the blogs I read has a new post, it pops up on there. How cool is that?! Currently I am subscribed to 56 genealogy related blogs. Anytime I find a new one I enjoy, it just gets added to my list. Then at my leisure I can browse the taglines of the posts and read when I have the time. Like at the school waiting to get my kids.
If you have not done this yet, go and do it. You will love it, I promise!
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Great post! I love Google Reader, too, and use it all the time.
ReplyDeleteI heard others talk about reading blogs in google reader but didn't do much with it -- until a few months ago. Like you, I suddenly realized that every post was there, and all the posts in every blog were available. And most of them just because I became a follower of a blog! What a great system google devised! Now my only problem is remembering whose blog had some specific post I remember.... (And sometimes I miss the conversations if I don't go to the blog to read the comments.)
ReplyDeleteYes, I had that problem too. Then I discovered how to "star" items. There is a star next to each post. If you click it, and turn the star yellow, you can now sort by your starred items. Over on the left hand menu there is a choice "starred items" that is what you click to see them all. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know what I did before Google Reader.
ReplyDeleteHere's a list of keyboard shortcuts:
http://support.google.com/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69973
Using the j/k keys to scroll through posts is my favorite.
Oh, thanks for that link! :)
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