Huge Time Saver

Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Personal |

Lord Google is doing an excellent job of assimilating me.  Releasing of new cool products has become a regular occurrence.  Then from atop Mount Googleplex new product is heralded "Team Google is proud to release Google Toilet Paper.  It’s cool and you will use it.  Resistance is futile."

Now Google has assimilated my blog reading with Google Reader.

For the uninitiated, Google Reader is simply an RSS Reader which allows a drone reader to collect all the RSS feeds from their favorite blogs in one place.  Too complicated?  Think of it this way: the hundred blogs I read are now on one single webpage.

How I read blogs before may sound archaic.  Actually it was stupid.  Upon finding a blog, it would be "book-marked" into a folder.  Soon this folder had dozens of blogs in it.  The folder was broken down into various groups.  "Real Estate", "Blog Favs", "Friends".  Some folders were created to be looked at based on schedule:  "Friday" and "Monthly".

Yeah, that system sucks.

Now all the blogs I read are on one page.  The "time savings" comes from the fact that Google Reader indicates which blogs have been updated.  Rather than spending 30 minutes, looking at dozens of blogs which may or may not have new material, I spend 5 minutes only looking at those blogs which have been updated.

If you have a blog without an RSS feed, what are you waiting for?  A burning bush?

Thanks to Tim over at 4HWW for the idea.

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Comments

4 Responses to “Huge Time Saver”

  1. AllAboutVoting on January 21st, 2008 11:08 am

    I just switched to Google Reader this month too. It’s been good so far. I was using the ‘Google Homepage’ before but found it was cumbersome to use that interface compared to Reader.

  2. Jared Christiansen on January 21st, 2008 3:42 pm

    Sounds very efficient. I might have to try it!

  3. ConnieBrz on January 23rd, 2008 11:23 pm

    Just went over and tried this– you’re so right~! Amazing how much faster this is.

    Thanks for the info :)

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