Quick Tips for Google Reader Power Users.

Last Sunday I was sitting in church when I felt my BlackBerry buzz. I quickly and discreetly checked to see if it was anything important. Indeed, it was a message from Guy Kawasaki letting me know my site was included in Alltop. At first I was floored, because Guy Kawasaki is a well-known figure in the tech world and it’s cool to receive an email … more »

For those of you who missed my blogging and podcasting presentation to the STC-Intermountain chapter, here is the mp3 file of the audio recording. Download MP3 (right-click and select Save Target As) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Duration: 1 hr 13 min. H4 File size: 65 MB Additionally, if you’re sitting at your computer, you can’t watch the PowerPoint slides with the audio … more »

Through a very fortunate circumstance, I was recently admitted to the ever-growing community of BlackBerry users. Owning a BlackBerry is a wonderful feeling — it’s like having the Internet in your pocket, wherever you go. At any point in time, you can check your mail (both work and gmail), read your feeds, check your calendar, instant message someone, navigate yourself on a map, check the weather, glance at the … more »

A week ago I read a flattering comment in one of Heidi’s posts. She says Intercom articles would be more enjoyable distributed as blog posts, and then adds that good blog posts are just as good as Intercom articles. Heidi writes: The thing about Intercom is that I think that these articles could all be blog posts. It would be a lot handier to read … more »

In the pages section of my site (upper-left corner), I’ve added several new features: a Google Reader blogroll, podroll, and a shared Pandora feed. This blogroll is different from the usual blogroll. This blogroll is a javascript that inserts feeds from my Google Reader. Now you can know exactly what I’m reading, and I don’t have to maintain a blogroll list separate from my feedreader … more »

Tibu Puiu from the Lost Art of Blogging asked me to check out his post on the “7 Blogging Beginning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them.” Although I agree with much of what he says, I’ve decided to play devil’s advocate here and see what counterarguments I can find against his points. I’ve listed Puiu’s headings below followed by my counterarguments.

Google Reader lets you share posts from the feeds you read. Right now I have a tremendously long commute in a carpool and I started using Google Gears’ offline reading for my feeds. It works quite well — until the car starts winding around a narrow mountain road and I feel like I’m going to throw up. But for a while, it does allow me … more »

You can unsubscribe from feeds in Google Reader via the Feed Management page (see image below), but it’s not the most efficient way of managing the feeds. Using this method to unsubscribe can be tedious and time-consuming, because you have to leave the page you’re on and then scroll down to find the feed you want to unsubscribe from. Instead, to unsubscribe from feeds in … more »