2013 WRITE: BLOGS: How to keep up with the news you want to follow.

BLOGS: How to keep up with the news 
you want to follow.
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• You find a blog or news source carrying news you want to read.
• What do you do?
• Bookmark--you have to keep checking
• News page, such as Google news
• Follow, subscribe--get notices of publications
• Feed reader-- Which and how?
• Circle in Google+
• Don't think either-or.  Think both-and.

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Bookmark

• OK for web pages that don't change often
• For blogs and news, you have to keep checking
• Blogs and news change frequently.   
• I forget to check.  I need another plan.

News page, such as Google news

• Adequate for major news
• But not for specialized news and blogs
• No easy way to select the sources 
• Usually they show the same story long after I read it

Follow, subscribe--get notices of publications

• You can usually find a follow option on the blog.  
• If you click that, you may find that you can request email notices.
• Or the Follow button may let you subscribe via a feed reader 

Feed reader-- Which and how?

• I use Feedly.   To subscribe to a blog or news source: 
• Click the +Add Content button (upper left).  
• Enter the target url of the home page in the entry window.
• Click the + by the name of the source you want.
• Check the category you want to put this item in. 
• Click the Update button to store your settings.
• Feedly will display one category at a time.
• So use the categories to help collect articles.
• And organize your information explosion.
• BTW, you can use the RSS symbol found on many blogs,
• but it only works for Geeks.
• Feedly lets me mark items as read,
• So I only see the new news.

Circle in Google+

• Many bloggers post links in Google+ when they publish.
• If you circle the blogger, you see the link.
• The blogger can see that you circled.
• And can easily circle you back.
• If you are a blogger, you like the reciprocal connection.
• I have a circle for people who post on things I want to keep up with.
• I monitor that circle closely
• When I see that a blogger has circled me, I circle them back.
• So I see the posts and can use them as leads for my articles

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