OK. seriously.
REVOLUTIONIZED the way that I waste time on the internet.
I was confused about it for a while and never bothered to check it out, but WOW! it is a wonderful idea. I just started using the Google Reader and it is fantastic. basically like Gmail for the rest of the internet. clean, concise and useful.
I cannot urge you enough to check it out. You can see at a glance what is new on your favorite websites. just like checking your email. No more clicking through your entire bookmarks list to read all the new stuff. Its all just right there on one page.
beautiful
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I've tried RSS a couple of different times with a couple of programs, but I've always been underwhelmed. What I didn't like was that you got to see the first couple of sentences of the blog entry, and then if you wanted to read further you had to go to the blog anyway. It was frustrating. I know that I want to at minimum eyeball all the new entries on the blogs I read, and I don't want to have to select the article before I can see the entire thing. Sometimes its the 2nd paragraph or later that catches my eye.
Save me the time - what does Google reader have to say to me?
well, for one thing, there is a very handy "Next_>" bookmark that you can put in Firefox's toolbar. by clicking that button, you can increment through your new RSS entries without actually navigating to each one individually. You still see the whole article, but now you dont have to go to each site individually on its own, the next button does it for you.
I havnt figured out how to change the order that the next button uses, though, so it is kind of random right now...
http://lifehacker.com/software/google-reader/?refId=218351 is a little repository of G Reader articles with tips and helps. I've subscribed to some blogs and I'm going to give it a try.
Here is a greasemonkey script for previewing an abbreviated reader entry that kind of solves the problem I raised - kind of, because its not real clean and smooth. But we're getting there...
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9455
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