One of the things that has surprised me about running this blog has been the number of people who subscribe via email.
There is a much easier way to subscribe to this and many other blogs. Googe Reader is a web based feed reader making it a snap to keep up with blogs or anything that provides a RSS feed all from a single place. If you’ve already got a GMail account, you can sign up very easily. If you don’t then you can sign up very quickly in a couple of minutes. It will save you lots of time in the long run.
My Google Reader Account in action
Here is a Google Reader tutorial by Andy Wibbels. There’s also another one by Capture the Conversation as well. Google have got into the act too with Google Reader in Plain English.
I *heart* Google Reader, though I’m almost certainly not getting the most from it.
I typically use Google Reader’s iGoogle module to read news on my home page. It makes it fast and easy to open interesting sounding stories in new tabs. The downside of this is that people who us unrelated blog titles don’t get read by me as much.
I typically only go into Google Reader itself when I’ve accidentally marked a story as Read when I didn’t read it yet.
Yeah agree Matt. Can’t think of a worse way to read a blog than email. With a feed reader you get to control when and how much you read. With email it just turns up whenever it feels like.