Use Google Reader? Make Subscribing Easier.

Recently, I switched back to using Google Reader from a short experiment with Feverº. As part of the switch back, I decided I would wipe my list of subs and start over to make sure I was prioritizing and categorizing appropriately.

In doing so, I stumbled across this post on the Google Reader blog from back in 2005. It contains a small bookmarklet labeled “Show all feeds” that I now use all the time as it simplifies the process of subscribing to feeds from just about any site, as long as they are announcing their feeds.

Just drag the bookmarklet up to your bookmarks bar on whatever browser you prefer to use. When you visit a site you’d like to add to your subscriptions list, click it. You’ll see something like this:

Then, click on the link that corresponds to the feed you’d like to add. It will open in Google Reader, where you can click the little Subscribe button.

links for 2009-06-17

(Photo credit: Thermometer by flickr user slayer23.)

Explaining RSS to People in Normal Human Words

This is about the best way I’ve seen to describe how RSS works. I post this for those of you who might not know that you can do this sort of thing with Web sites you visit; it’s actually not all that common. Now that you know, won’t you kindly click on the little orange graphic to the right and subscribe?