socialmedian: I'm Evangelizing RSS With Google Reader's E-mail Function

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I'm Evangelizing RSS With Google Reader's E-mail Function

Source: Paul's shared items in Google Reader

Oct 10, 2008

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Living on the cutting edge as early adopters at times can seem like an exclusive club. The tools we use every day have funny names to the outside world - Twitter... OPML... Technorati... Plurk? But while we're hanging out in these oxygen-poor communities, and seeking out new ways to aggregate all our online activities in one place, a good deal of the people we work with, our family and our friends, have precious little to aggregate. But they get e-mail, and you can leverage e-mail as the bridge to an RSS-powered life.

Google Reader Shows I E-mail 1 or 2 items a day
Google Reader is my starting point to consume the day's Web news. While Google Reader offers the best way to consume hundreds of RSS feeds in one place, and read them quickly, it has entrenched itself as a core element of my online activity thanks to a few social functions. The first is the ability to quickly add items to a link blog, which can be embedded on my blog, or streamed to lifestreaming sites, including Plaxo, Strands, Social Median and FriendFeed. And while that retains the geek cred, it's ...Read the full article

Comments (18)

Svartling,

Oct 10, 2008

@louisgray I use the email feature all the time. I used to email my self so I can store great and important stuff in Gmail. Thanks for a great article.

Mohall24,

Oct 10, 2008

Thanks for a really useful article, will check out G mail Reader more closely.

Recruiterguy,

Oct 10, 2008

GoogleReader and coffee are how every single morning starts for me. Hands down the best RSS reader I know of - so much so that I mention it any time I'm speaking anywhere as a solid addition to anyone's daily toolbox.

One of my favorite features is the ability to share articles (with comments) and have my shared items viewed by other Google contacts in my network as well as displayed in a handy widget on my blog.

Hutch,

Oct 10, 2008

"Google Reader is my starting point to consume the day's Web news. While Google Reader offers the best way to consume hundreds of RSS feeds in one place, and read them quickly, it has entrenched itself as a core element of my online activity thanks to a few social functions."

Cass,

Oct 10, 2008

Did consider this use when I first started with g reader, but found that the format of the article gets really scrunched up when emailed. Practically, that's just not attractive and hence contacts may be more put off by my emails. So I gave up on that. But thinking of spreading g reader love using the google search results rss feeds once that comes out, as a research tool. And my brother loves his 3D mac screensaver that's driven by an rss of news headlines that I helped him set up ;)

Jasongoldberg,

Oct 11, 2008

@recruiterguy @hutch @cass Did you know that when you connect your google reader to socialmedian, your shared items with notes are automatically shared as comments on socialmedian?

Hutch,

Oct 11, 2008

I do know that. Love that feature Jason!

Earlwallace,

Oct 11, 2008

@jasongoldberg how do I connect my google reader to socialmedian..the mechanics of these cross importing overwhelms me.

Kathleenld,

Oct 11, 2008

@earlwallace @jasongoldberg I have the same question

Scottwheaton,

Oct 11, 2008

@earlwallace, @kathleenld, check out this link:

http://getsatisfaction.com/socialmedian/topics/how_do_i_add_my_google_reader_shares

It should explain everything. Send me an e-mail (scott@socialmedian.com) if you run into any problems.

Earlwallace,

Oct 11, 2008

@Scottwheaton Thanks Scott! works great!

Imjustcreative,

Oct 11, 2008

I still have not made the transition from Netnewswire reader to Google Reader, although I do routinely update Google Reader with all my feeds.

BUt I do like the idea of this email function mucho.

Practice Hacker,

Oct 11, 2008

Louis - hate to be a pain but .. really? Google Reader is the way that you evangelize your mom to RSS? And you start your day with it? Really?

Look, crappy UI aside I find GR to be both confusing and tiresome. Or maybe I'm not familiar with the right way to use it? For instance it seems that you can't share all your favorites (starred selections) at once and instead must share one at a time. I could go on.

Instead, I think social|median makes it much easier to preview and share information and opinions - as well as to interact. If you need proof consider that I read this post on S|M and I'm commenting here now.

Look, I'm a Google-head like everybody else. I think they rule. But when is Google going to graduate from the college-dorm-room look and feel you get when you use one of their tools? It used to be cute but now ...

Martinrstone,

Oct 12, 2008

I really like Google Reader because of being able to to combine sources and show them in chronological order. What I would really like to do is have my Google Reader shares appear in ScocialMedian just like they do in my blog, friendfeed etc. But SocialMedian seems to be telling me that the service will be available later yet I see SocialMedian feeds submitted by others from Googlereader

Cass,

Oct 12, 2008

@jasongoldberg Yes, I have g reader connected and it's very useful! However, I find that my notes are usually not imported over as comments, and often items are shared inappropriately to the UN News group (for some weird reason).

Jasongoldberg,

Oct 13, 2008

@cass Will look into that, thanks. @nishith

Scottwheaton,

Oct 13, 2008

@cass Try commenting when you share, instead of after sharing. If you comment after sharing socialmedian does not re-crawl and place the story again.

Cass,

Oct 13, 2008

@scottwheaton Just as an FYI - yep, I comment at the point of sharing, using g reader's 'share with note' function, if that's what you mean. Still does not import over. I'm ok with it, but just in case you guys would like to look into it :)