I know this isn’t exactly the ‘technology for the future’ thing, but from my observations, almost *all* the people I know don’t have a clue to what an RSS feed is. I myself just started to use this feed thing a couple months back, and it really helped me to stay up to date with the blogs that I love. For those of you who eat and breathe RSS, bear with me for a second, or in that case, just close your eyes 🙂

Ok. So you guys like to visit blogs rite? A couple here, and couple there, and when you have the time, or when you remember about the guy, then you open the link to the blog (most people also don’t have a clue to what a bookmark is, so the worst case scenario is they type it everytime they wanted to visit the blog. I’ll leave the bookmark thing for another guy to write 🙂 )

This is easy when you have only one blog to visit, but it’s becoming a problem when it’s six, and definetely a mess when you have twenty two. Well, if you don’t care much about missing a few (or a lot) posts here and there, then maybe this post is not for you. But for you who want to keep up with all the posts of those particular blogs, then you should try an RSS reader, in this case Google Reader.

Just to make it quick, I’ll try to have you subscribed to my blog. Just follow this steps:

1. Head on to www.google.com/reader/

2. If you have a Gmail email address, you can use the address and the password to log in. If not, create a Gmail account now.

3. You are all set with your Google reader account! Now, we’re going to try get you to subscribe to my blog

4. Look at the right sidebar of my blog, and find “Subscribe to my blog here!” section. Click on the ‘Posts’ button, and then clik on the ‘Add to Google’.

5. Confirm your subscription if they ask you to.

6. You are now subscribed to my blog “Both Sides of The Lens”!

You can do this steps every time you found a new blog you want to follow, or some news headlines you want to keep up to. Just look for the word ‘Subscribe via RSS’, or look for this sign They usually already have a “add to Google” button there after you click the orange thingie.

Or, you can try this very neat trick to subscribe to blogs just with one click:

1. Log in into your Google Reader account

2. Click Settings on the top right menu

3. Click Goodies on the tabs

4. Scroll all the way down, and find the ‘Subscribe as you Surf” section. There, you have the word “Subscribe” as a bookmark (in orange). Just drag the word to your bookmark bar (usually its directly below your address bar, which is where you type ‘www.google.com’ or ‘www.yahoo.com’)

5. Now, every time you run into a blog that you want to follow, just click on that bookmark button, and voila! you are subscribe to that blog.

So, all this lengthy effort is for what? Just have a look in your Google Reader page, and you can see all that blogs in neatly arranged on the bottom left corner of your screen, ready to feed your hungry eyes 🙂 And its updated on the go, meaning that everytime you sign into your Google Reader page, you will know when there’s a new post in every single one of the blogs you subscribed to. Neat eh? You’ll never miss anything again 🙂

Hopefully this will help you guys out, and brings us closer to world peace. Amen. 🙂

Edward

PS: Please leave a comment if you learn a new thing today 🙂