Using Google Reader

Hello everyone,

I don't know how many of you know about or use Google's Reader tool, but it's a great way to monitor all the blogs you like to read all in one spot. I thought I would show you how it works.

You of course need a Google account to use it, but I think we all have one just to use this blog.

The website is: http://www.google.com/reader

Once you are there, all you have to do is click on 'add subscription', and in that box you put in the address of the website you want to monitor. At first you will see all of the posts on the website, but after you mark them as read, you will only see new posts.

Now if you want to set it up so that you are notified when people make comments, just add another subscription, but add /feeds/comments/default?orderby=published to the end of the website. So for example:

http://evansfamilyconnection.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?orderby=published


Not all websites or blogs will work because they can disable the feature that allows this to work. But most do.

Also, Google reader works well on the iPhone.