So pleased - converted all my sidebars to Reader today and went through 150 blogs in 3 hours, commenting on about 100 and not one or two worders either unless I planned it that way.That has infinitely sped up the process but now I have to get Matt Wardman, Shades and the Thunderdragon to get me to the next stage. Possibly this OPEC country thing - is it OPML?
Sir james, I just don't know how you can do it. I can't even read that many in that time.
ReplyDeletePerhaps because I spend so much time on Theos piccys. :)
They're better in the flesh, Bag. How's Anais?
ReplyDeleteOPML is mainly a way to pass lists of web and feed addresses around.
ReplyDeleteIf you are serious, the next move should be to get Wordpress on a .co.uk domain.
I'm publishing an e-book next month entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Political Blogging".
She's fine Sir James. You should visit and have a chat. I'm sure she would be pleased to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteI think these readers are great of course, but it was a bit disconcerting to look just now and find 18 unread for Nourishing Obscurity.
ReplyDeleteregards
jmb
what are you talking about?
ReplyDeleteditto what Liz said.
ReplyDeleteA Reader, such as Google Reader is an even bigger time waster than just surfing blogs. It means that you can get all the blogs you read in one place by subscribing. In reality it means that you start to feel guilty about all those articles that are just sitting waiting to be read, especially as jmb mentioned, you subscribe to James's blog.
ReplyDeleteBack to the girls in a minute.
ReplyDeleteColin - you're right here. It does create guilt and it's almost like a funfair thing that the monet you've killed off one comment, another pops up from some bstd and you have to hit it on the head.
Some bstd like Higham and you can never kill him off - his posts are annoyingly always popping up and spoiling the nice clean sheet. A clean sheet and you can go out and do some other business.
The solution I think is to adopt a select to read policy from the available posts. My system sustains three open windows at one time and Google reader allows this from the one blogger.
That's fine for me and whilst they're loading, all his others are marked as read. This way we can get through the blogroll more fairly than before.
I was going to say what Liz and Uber said. I know it's been explained on dtb and elsewhere but I can't cope!
ReplyDeleteLadies, time to speak with you. You know I also have a "thing" about new-fangled technology but the blogrolls were getting beyond a joke.
ReplyDeleteSo I went to google and typed in "Google Reader".
Bingo, the site came up but I didn't know what to do. It didn't seem to lead anywhere.
I saw a box "Add subscription" and for the hell of it, copied and pasted Colin's url.
Bingo again - suddenly his name came up in a panel lower left with all his current posts.
Emboldened, I copied and pasted Welshcakes' url.
Bingo - all her posts came up too. Now I discovered that if I clicked the grey arrow on her list of posts at the right end of the line, that particular post came up fast in a new window.
Now that everyone is "added subscription", whenever I go in to the Reader url which I added to favourites, up comes anyone I know who has recently posted.
If I click on his/her name, all his/her recent posts come up. Let's say there are eight of them. I look down them, choose three I might want to read and click on the grey arrow.
Three windows spring up and then I can click at the head of this summary "Mark all as read".
Then I go and deal with the three posts. The whole process takes about 25% of the time. This is why everyone has had me visiting recently.
At least try it. Type Google Reader into the google search and see what happens.