Is it just me or are there so many blogs that you would like to follow but for some reason you can’t? I know I have had problems keeping up. I follow about 250 individual blogs. Blogging has really become main stream on the web over the last couple of years. Everyone and their dog has a blog. I read a variety of blogs, some technical, some hobby and a lot of friends and family. A lot of my friends and family share information via their blog.
Google via their purchasing of Blogger.com as well as other blog providers have made blogging so easy that almost anyone who knows how to use Word can publish content. Blogs are the modern equivalent of the Christmas family newsletter only it can be written and updated a lot faster and a lot more often.  Blogs are an easy way to share news, information and photos with the family.
So as blogs have become more popular its harder to keep up with them. In the beginning I would bookmark blogs that interested me and every so often I would visit the link and catch up on that area of interest. This worked for a while but become too much effort. As I added blogs it just became a huge list of bookmarks. When my blog reader list reached 50 blogs I decided it was time to find a better way to organize them. This is where aggregators or readers become an important tool.
What is a reader? A reader is a tool that receives updates from the blogs your read via what is called an RSS feed. The RSS feed is basically a subscription to the blog. This means that every time some one publishes their blog it sends out a message to the reader to say “hey I just updated thisâ€. This allows the average blog reader the ability to track blogs easily and more efficiently. I use Google Reader.
Google reader is amazingly simple tool that is flexible and very useable. Google reader allows you to easily manage subscriptions, organize, label and share items right with in a easy to use web interface.
Google Reader is feature rich.
- Google Reader is a web-based reader for RSS and Atom news feeds.
- You can group and read your subscriptions using free labels.
- Google Reader allows you tag, sort and organize individual items using labels, too.
- Keyboard shortcuts make navigating Google Reader extremely easy.
- You can easily share items on a public web page that has an RSS feed itself, send them by email, or use tags for blogrolls.
- A blog and news search engine makes it easy to find and subscribe to feeds.
- Google Reader is accessible in screen readers and navigable using WAI-ARIA.
- Using Google Gears, you can access up to 2000 items offline (in the normal Google Reader interface).
- You can import and export your subscriptions using OPML.
Google reader allows me to follow more than 250 blogs daily. It tells me which posts I haven’t read and which ones I have. It keeps stats on what I like to read, share and tag. If you would like me to add your blog or link to your blog please send it to
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