Oct 31, 2006 | blog
While I’ve unsubscribed from Dave’s Scripting News feed for the time being, I also have to give him kudos for developing and describing the River of News view. Over the past 2+ years that I’ve been using RSS for news consumption, I’ve tried about 10 or so different readers, out of which I ended up with Pluck for at least a year and a half.
This summer, however, I started playing around at other readers again and ran across a post somewhere espousing the benefits of Google Reader. So I tried it, and liked it – a lot. I’d tried several River of News views before, but GReader seems to hit the sweet spot for me. Reading and marking posts in GReader’s “All Items” view (by newest) is the most efficient way for me to read feeds now – I can’t even go back to feed-by-feed reading any longer.
Also, after reading Scoble’s use of GReader’s sharing feature, I also discovered my own personalized Link Blog. Neat how that works – if anyone is interested in what I’m reading, they can simply view my link blog. Its the actual posts I read from my list of feeds.
Via: Scobleizer – Dave Winer was right about river reading
Oct 28, 2006 | blog
I finally got a chance to start using the “Share” feature in Google Reader. Its very cool, when you share a story/post from a feed in Google Reader, it is added to you’re Google Reader Link Blog. Mine is located here.
It’s impressive, because it pulls the full post from the original site, and adds a line below the title crediting the original source. Very neat and very simple.
The great part of something like a link blog is that you can share what articles and blog posts that you think are interesting. These shared articles are presented in a simple blog format that changes as often as you want it to.
If you’re currently using Google Reader, start sharing the articles and posts of interest to you – they will automatically be added to your own link blog that you can point your readers to. Do you have a link blog? If so, share the URL here, it’d be great to see what others are reading.
Link: Rick’s shared items
Oct 25, 2006 | blog
I’ve been trying the RSS reader in IE7, Onfolio, Firefox, and others for the last day or so. I keep coming back to Google Reader.
You can’t beat it’s simplicity, speed, and ease of use. There are more features in a number of readers, but all I need is to have an aggregator that simply lets me read the news that I’m interested in as quickly as possible. I also can manage one OPML list and access it from anywhere. Nothing else compares in the same way.
Combine GReader with hosted GMail, and Docs & Spreadsheets, and a common login. This makes all these features of Google work well together. Yes, they need more integration work, but that will happen over time.
I’ve yet to try the rating or sharing features, but will get to those soon. They look fairly interesting, and may be of use linked from my blog.
Give GReader a try!
Oct 16, 2006 | blog
Early last week, I decided to try using the River of News format that Scoble and Winer both rave about so much. You can enable this type of view in Google Reader by selecting All Items in the selection panel on the left, and then selecting Sort by newest the view settings.
I have to say that this view simply is the greatest way to consume RSS/ATOM feeds. While I had thought I would miss my more interesting feeds because they would be “buried” inside a bunch of other non-critical posts, that simply isn’t the case.
The “river of news” view has allowed me to make another leap in both the quantity and quality of news I consume. Today I’m able to follow many more stories, much more quickly.
Thank you Dave Winer!
Sep 1, 2006 | blog
CoolSmartPhone.com talks about a free new RSS Reader for Pocket PCs called NewsCopier. With a Smartphone version due to be delivered shortly as well, the vendor, maximumsoft, has a nice product on their hands.
Personally, I use NewsBreak from IliumSoft, and love it. But previous to that I used several freeware products that didn’t reach the mark. This product seems to meet the base needs of the average reader.
Check it out!
Link to CoolSmartPhone.com – Free RSS Reader for Pocket PC – NewsCopier
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