New Link Blog

Posted by Kerim
October 5, 2006

Since their recent upgrade, I’ve switched from using my desktop client, NetNews Wire, to using Google Reader online, something I was never willing to do with any previous online RSS client I’ve tried. It is still in Google Labs, which means it hasn’t even graduated to a proper “beta” software product and so still has some rough edges, but so far I’m pretty pleased with it.

One cool thing is that this allows me to create a “clip blog” of all those stories I find interesting, but simply don’t have the time to blog about. Accordingly, I’ve replaced my old “side blog” with a new one that will be updated much more often with much more content (as long as I continue to use Google Reader). Look over on the right side of this page.

If you prefer, you can read all the posts to the link blog on their own web page! You can also subscribe to it via its RSS feed. (If you subscribed to my old sideblog RSS feed you should update your links.)

PS: I know the styling is a bit off, I’m working on it … if you know some CSS maybe you can help out? UPDATE: Thanks to the Feedburner staff for their help!

{, }

Announcements, Info Tech

If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.

Comments
Comment by lorenz on October 6, 2006 @ 9:39 am

Cool! I haven’t checked Google Reader for a while. Looks good. Might be a good way of organizing stuff (but a search feature would be useful)

Comment by Owen on October 8, 2006 @ 5:33 pm

The clip blog looks nice. I might be tempted to migrate from bloglines and make my life even more google-centric.

I wonder if you have a routine for integrating your reading and bookmarking? It would be nice if there was an easy way to send stuff straight out of an RSS reader to del.icio.us with tags and all, but I suppose that’s never going to happen with Google Reader and a Yahoo-owned site.

Comment by Kerim on October 8, 2006 @ 8:05 pm

Actually, the Google folks love del.icio.us (I’ve read a bunch of posts about it on the Google blog). But my guess is that some third-party will make a tool to do something just like that.

I just use Google Reader tags for organizing my feeds, not for individual posts… (i.e. posts are tagged according to the “folder” that they are in, not the subject of the individual post).

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.