Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Week 2: Setting up an RSS reader

What a fun exercise. I feel like a whole new world has opened up for me. I had seen the RSS icon on numerous pages, but had never bothered to find out what it actually meant. Discovering the Google Reader has found me yet another way to spend more time on the computer. What a great way to get current information on items of interest. Before I even subscribed to topics I was personally interested in, I enjoyed scrolling down the recommended items and finding cartoons, amazing photographs and a myriad stream of unrelated items.

I popped the Google Reader into my favorites and started looking for feeds. Finding and subscribing to them is fast and easy and I already realize I am going to have to cut back as I discover the ones that I especially like and let some of the others go. So far I have 11 feeds with information on gardening, green living, healthy cooking, organizing and DIY home improvement. Thinking they held the greatest content, I picked the feeds that had the most subscriptions and avoided the ones with few. Before too long I hope to shape my Google Reader into a manageable, personalized content reader.

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