Follow a Blog with Google Reader
I'm a bit of a news junkie, which explains addictions to bbc.co.uk, perezhilton.com, and facebook newsfeed (I like a variety!). The latter has turned me into a shameless observer of friends' lives but I love finding out what's going on in the world.
With the creation of this blog I realized how many people leave following blogs out of their daily news intake so I thought I'd better walk people through how, exactly, to follow this blog and others. In the right margin of most blogs you'll find something that says "follow." If it's not in the right margin, then just look around, you'll find it. If you click on follow you'll get the chance to choose which source to follow from. If you use yahoo, then yahoo, if gmail, then gmail and so on.
We'll talk specifically how to follow using google reader. When you follow a blog with google reader, then you're placing the new posts from that blog into your own personal reader that updates with each new post from each of the blogs you follow. This means, no, you do not get an email every time a blog updates (although you can arrange for this, too). You simply get the latest from that blog in your own personal news feed from the collection of blogs you'd like to follow and its accessible to you when you sign into your google account and click on reader.
It's pretty darn nifty, if you ask me.
Step by step directions below for following a blog via google reader. And, hey, try it out on this blog, whydontcha?
1. Find a blog you want to follow and find the follow button.
2. Select how you'd like to follow.
3. Sign in to your already-existing email!
4. Select how you'd like to follow: publicly (so everyone will just see your name) or privately (no one will see your name.
5. Enjoy your new source of news any time you wish by signing into gmail and clicking on the reader button.
With the creation of this blog I realized how many people leave following blogs out of their daily news intake so I thought I'd better walk people through how, exactly, to follow this blog and others. In the right margin of most blogs you'll find something that says "follow." If it's not in the right margin, then just look around, you'll find it. If you click on follow you'll get the chance to choose which source to follow from. If you use yahoo, then yahoo, if gmail, then gmail and so on.
We'll talk specifically how to follow using google reader. When you follow a blog with google reader, then you're placing the new posts from that blog into your own personal reader that updates with each new post from each of the blogs you follow. This means, no, you do not get an email every time a blog updates (although you can arrange for this, too). You simply get the latest from that blog in your own personal news feed from the collection of blogs you'd like to follow and its accessible to you when you sign into your google account and click on reader.
It's pretty darn nifty, if you ask me.
Step by step directions below for following a blog via google reader. And, hey, try it out on this blog, whydontcha?
1. Find a blog you want to follow and find the follow button.
2. Select how you'd like to follow.
3. Sign in to your already-existing email!
4. Select how you'd like to follow: publicly (so everyone will just see your name) or privately (no one will see your name.
5. Enjoy your new source of news any time you wish by signing into gmail and clicking on the reader button.
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