Get Your News In One Place With Google Reader
Written by Alan Tuesday, 24 August 2010 08:00
Some you reading this are doing so in your RSS Reader (or Feed Reader as they are also known), but I suspect, from what I have been hearing, that you are in the minority.
But, for me, RSS Readers are not dying. I use mine more than ever. What better way to get to a lot of news with a minimum amount of typing and clicking around?
What I have been using is Google Reader. There’s nothing to download because, like most Google services, it’s a web app. It’s right there whenever you go to Google so it’s easy to get to. And almost every news site on the web has an RSS feed. And, I am not just talking about headline news sites like CNN, but sports news, tech news, and science news, to name just a few things.
Google Reader has two columns. The left contains your feeds (web sites) and the right contains the headlines and articles. Also, in the left column, you can drag and drop sites into folders that you have created to separate news feeds, such as sports and science. At the top of the left column is an Add Subscription button and at the bottom is a Manage Subscriptions link. When you click the manage link you will get a screen that allows you to add folders, move feeds around to different folders and delete feeds.
If you find your self visiting certain sites on a regular basis this will make things much simpler by placing all of those sites in one, easy-to-use location.
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