I added three of my own web sites of interest to my Google Reader. The Escapist is a roleplaying game advocacy site, where I do a little writing too. Moon Design Studios publishes Glorantha, my favorite roleplaying setting. Guo Jian is a artist in China. I met him on my last trip, and now I can more easily keep up with changes to his website.
I also added reader links for everyone else in the current Pi 2.0 course. I already had Kemi from a previous exercise. I also added Bridget and Jo. They have shared a bunch of interesting thoughts, mostly around discovering, managing, and balancing technology for self and classroom.
I added Word of the Day from Dictionary.com as a fun site. Most of the others were not of interest to me. When I looked through the blog search engines and organizers, I found little to draw me. I don't read Sports, Entertainment, and so forth except as it intersects China
I made a custom News Feed at Google News. I had it search "China" and added the feeder link thus created to my reader. I checked results for "Glorantha", but it came back with only one source, that in French, so I think I already have the sites I need for my obscure hobby.
I like this reader system, though it has me looking back at my bookmarks to see what I should include and what I should move to a more systematic bookmark system. I have a gazillion bookmarks.
Now I am supposed to check my feeds for five to seven days to get used to reading them as a habit. I am eager to move forward with Pi 2.0, but maybe I should cool my heels for a bit and digest all of this.
Readers can make the life of those of us who do receive the majority of their information from the web easier. I find it best if you don't get too much in your reader though...if I have too much, I tend to avoid it. Don't make it static - take out the feeds you don't find yourself wanting to check all the time, but don't be afraid to add new ones. You can always take them out.
ReplyDeleteI already know what you mean. I removed the Google news feed I'd created. It was way too much volume and mostly business news repeated over and over again in different places.
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