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Feed Readers and Shared Items
Sharing is caring.
In looking for inspiration and materials to blog upon, I subscribe to a number of blogs using a feed reader. For the uninitiated, a feed reader is an aggregate means to read many blogs at once in a single place.
If one were to Google on “feed reader” a variety of results will come up. Feed readers come in many shapes and flavors.
Myself, I prefer a reader that can be accessed anywhere, on any computer. For this reason, I use Google Reader to subscribe to a variety of blogs — including horn-related, general music and web design blogs.
For anyone new to feed readers, I highly recommend Google Reader. It is easy to setup and use — even for the novice.
For more on how to use Google Reader see the video below:
» Shared items
Google Reader has several extra features that come in handy. One feature that I use gets imported into a page here at Horn Matters.
As I read along in Google Reader, interesting posts from other blogs may be tagged in a variety of ways, one option being “shared.”
That single action is automatically documented in several places at once – on the Shared Reading page and in a dedicated page with a vanity URL — http://www.google.com/reader/shared/brucehembd.
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