After my luncheon at AMCHAM with Matt Mullenweg, he made a mention of using Google Reader and because I only use email subscriptions for reads (which can sometimes get annoying because they are in you inbox whether you want it to be or not – unless you set up rules), I decided to go and try Google Reader. (Sorry about the resolution of the photo, didn’t realize it was so retarded looking since I just uploaded it directly to my site).

After about 2 weeks of using this.  I LOVE IT!   I’ve already made subscriptions feeds to 10 sites that I frequent regularly.  I know I should have more, but there aren’t sites that I love so much that I want feeds EVERYDAY.   Those that do make my list, are definitely daily readers.  And it’s nothing like news where most of it is bad (don’t you notice?), but stuff that is genuinely interesting.  Of course, some of them are blogs of my sisters and friends, but that stuff is personal to me, so of course I have to subscribe to it!

The gyst is you don’t need to visit your favourite bookmarks (although that doesn’t mean bookmarks have no use, they sure still have usages for more static content – like dictionaries and translators), and any NEW updates come to you.  So if the site hasn’t been updated, you’ll know because your reader hasn’t changed.  But if it has been updated, you’ll also know because it’ll pop up in your reader.  The only downer is that it doesn’t feed videos (from WordPress blogs, but it does feed videos from blogspot)- so it just cuts it out and you’re not even sure a video should have been embedded there.

Anyways, here’s how it works for those who don’t use it and are thinking about it.

1. First of all, you have to login to your google account (you don’t have one?  WHAT? HOW NOT? Google ROCKS!)
2. Go to the Google Reader
3. Add the “SUBSCRIPTION” button to your favourites
4. Go to your favourite sites and use that new button on it
5. It will automatically direct you to the Google Reader page
6. Confirm “SUBSCRIPTION”
7. Categorize into folders as you deem appropriate

It’s that easy.  And then, you have all your favourite content driven to one centralized and compartmentalized webpage.  It’s that fabulous.  It’s that amazing.  I know, this technology isn’t new, nor is it gravity defying, but it’s still fabulous.  This is one of the reasons I love Google.  Fabulous.  HAHA.