Blog reading made easy.

Reading blogs is becoming an increasingly common pastime. It will become even more so as we move into the future.

This article is to help those who do not know what RSS is or how to use an RSS reader, or even those who have no idea that you can subscribe to a blog via email. Some people still bookmark blogs and keep checking back for more content.

Personally, I use the Google RSS reader (Google Reader) for keeping my list of blogs and for reading the entries. This way I never miss anything and neither do I feel pressured (by blog emails for example) to ‘catch up’.

Using an RSS reader is the most time efficient and easiest way to read blogs.

Google have some excellent resources about RSS and Google Reader:

Getting started with Google Reader

The Official Google Reader Help Videos

As far as my blogs are concerned, the RSS button  is in the top right area:

…and the subscribe via email form is just above the RSS button, again on the right (see image above).

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