Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
One Way to Speed Up Your Feed Reading
Image by eristoddle via Flickr
A feed reader is supposed to speed things up. You don’t have to visit the blog to read what’s been published.
That’s how mine started and somehow I have managed to collect over 2000 feeds which I have categorized along the way:
- Advertising
- Affiliate
- Blogging
- Design
- Developer
- Forums
- Internet Marketing and Make Money
- Money (finance)
- Productivity and Freelance
- SEO
- Social Media
- Tech
- Thinkers
- Upcoming and Memes
- WordPress
- Writing
Feed Consolidation for Niche Blogs
One of the first things you want to do when starting a new blog is find the neighborhoods that you will hang out in when you are working on your blog. These will be the blogs you comment on, get news from and reference when writing the posts on your own blog.
Google Reader
I am a Google Reader junkie. I use it in the browser, in the sidebar, in iGoogle, and on the phone when I am bored in waiting rooms. It is fast and a very useful tool. And I found it a necessity to use someone else’s processing power after the feeds in my OPML file grew to the size of over 700 individual feeds. Live bookmarks just isn’t going to do the job. And this was just my reading list for this blog and Digital Products Review.
7 Very Cool Free Desktop Feed Readers
I have been so wrapped up lately trying to replace desktop software with web apps that I haven’t looked into desktop feed readers for a long time. I used Firefox live marks until I realized that 700 feeds will slow down the browsing experience.
After that I went to Google Reader and have kept my feeds there for a while. I maxed out Google Reader with Monkeyscripts to the point it runs real lyslow and then I went to the mobile version in the sidebar of Flock. Read more... (910 words, 2 images, estimated 3:38 mins reading time)