I’ve just started using Google Reader properly for the first time. I’ve never really been a fan of news/feed readers before. Actually, let me rephrase that; I’ve never used a news/feed reader before, I never saw the point.
The point is obvious though, to arrange all your regular reading content into one place, then to have it neatly organised for easy reading and searching. All from the same place.
After just a few hours of using it, I’ve now added nine websites which I read daily, if not more than twice a day to check up on the latest from these various websites. Since I now have them in Google Reader, I don’t have to check their website at all anymore, but simply just the check the reader every so often and it’ll tell me if I have any unread content.
If you find you read a few different websites daily and don’t currently have them organised in a news/feed reader yet, then I’d highly recommend Google Reader. Its fast, easy to use and works, just like any other Google product.
A couple of pointers for fellow webmasters out there too…
If you have a website and currently don’t have a feed, get one now!
and If you have a feed already, advertise it with some nice large feed icons
And finally, for a blatant plug, you can add my feed to your Google Reader by just clicking here.
I already have you in my Google reader, have had for a couple of months!
Its good isn’t it. I am well impressed. Its keeping me slightly more organised!
I still don’t see the point in those things, It makes having an actual website obsolete.
I’d much rather view a website in the design that a website has been given, I like the variety of it rather than being stuck inside the same interface all the time.
I can imagine it being useful if you read a lot of blogs regularly I guess. Maybe I should give it a try.
….yeh why not.
I’d fully agree with you Ads, I don’t like it either that you don’t regally see the design of the site, but it is a whole lot easier to keep an eye on things. And then again, if you decide to comment on a certain post from a blog, then you’ll get to see the design then anyway