Welcome to Feedly! It’s another RSS service that allows you to pull all of your favorite content from the web into one easy place to read. BUT I’m here to offer you an alternative that I may even like better! Google Reader is shutting down on July 1, 2013! I am pretty distraught about this given that I have been reading blogs through Google Reader for over 5 years now. However, I do have several other things to share with you that run the gamut from Google Reader news to some interesting links to read to new music. I’m just doing the best I can to even get through this week right now. My life has been extremely photo unworthy over the past couple of days. Another option is to sign up with a hotmail or gmail adress, but I don’t like to read e-mail there.I’ve got nadda to show you on the food/life front although I assure you that you aren’t missing anything. If I’d sign up with the shared e-mail adress, he’d get the messages too on his devices. (For instance, I share an e-mail adress with my partner, but he’s not really interested in reading about crafting. Paste the adress, click ok, and voila, blogposts in your mailprogram!Īnother advantage of RSS in your mailbox: you don’t clutter other pc’s with your blogs. Copy the adress, go to your e-mail program and look something about newsgroups / feeds, then search for a subscribe/add feed button. (Usually the blog adress followed by /feed or /feeds). Click it, then click the adress that is shown. Beneath the last blogpost and bottom bar there is a link: Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). On the homepage of the blog, scroll down to the very bottom. Oh another tip: Almost every blog out there has an rss feed. If you follow by e-mail of by clicking another button on the site, they can track the amount of followers. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for this (free e-mail program).ĭisadvantage is that some challenge blogs require you to be a follower, and they can’t see that you follow them this way. I love it for the reasons you mention: Own folders so you don’t miss out on that one blog that only makes a post once a month (but is worth reading). Not for you though, I follow you by e-mail, I think I might have started following before I started using the rss in my mailbox. I use the rss mailbox as well for most blogs. Lots of great things to come in the next few month that you won’t want to miss! Okay – whew! Good luck moving those RSS feeds. If you don’t already use it, I wouldn’t start now! Hold on to your shorts though, iGoogle also retires this year–November 2013. It cannot handle tracking the number of blogs I follow, but it is handy as a home page and is great for first glance sort of stuff. IGoogle is wonderful if you’re checking in on only a handful of sites every day. Some say it can slow down your browser, while others say it loads quickly. Feedly looks clean and simple and it is easy to use. Bloglovin’ is nice because you can organize all your blogs into categories, plus it has a free app to read blogs on the go.įeedly also has a simplified Google Reader import process. Find Flax & Twine on Bloglovin’ right here. You can easily create an account on Bloglovin’ here. Recently, Bloglovin’ added a super easy mechanism to import all of your RSS feeds from Google Reader. Yay! Don’t you want a little dose of me in your inbox next to the mundane day- to-day stuff? You can do this in the “FeedBurner Subscribe by Email” box over in the right side bar just under the chunky knits button. You can subscribe to Flax & Twine by email and the posts will come directly into your inbox. This works wonderfully if you have a Mac, but I’m not sure of the functionality of this in Outlook. I have no need to go to another website first. Plus, it’s super convenient having the blogs I follow directly in my mail program. This works well because the RSS feeds are kept separate from my inbox and I can separate the feeds from there into folders and organize them how I like. I download my feeds into a pre-existing RSS folder in my Apple Mail software. I know none of you want to miss a single thread of Flax & Twine, so here are my thoughts: With all this hubbub about Google Reader going away, I figured I’d give you a quick summary of some other blog reading options. I’m sure most of you know this by now, but Google Reader is closing up shop July 1st.
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