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My Shared Items on Google Reader

by Garry Conn

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I just totally cleaned out my Google Reader and I am in the process of adding subscriptions back into it. In part of that process, I am also starting to make better use of the Sharing feature in Google Reader. Google Readers issues me with a public web page where people can see the items I share. You can access this page here. More importantly though, this page comes with an RSS feed. The address was a little strange so I simply burned it into FeedBurner so that it would be easier for people to remember.

I want to invite you to subscribe to my Shared Items RSS Feed. Here is the link:

http://feedproxy.google.com/garryconn/googlereader

By subscribing to this RSS feed you can get updates with all the articles I read on a day to day basis. Most cases these shared articles contain my notes. These notes usually offer my feedback, opinions are just a simple recap of the article that you are about to read.

One other thing I wanted to announce is that I just sent out about 120 requests to people who are in my Gmail address book to remind that about using Google Reader and to accept me as a friend. If you use Google Reader, you can add me as a friend and then you can immediately receive copies of the articles I am sharing directly in Google Reader. Also, because we are friends, you can even share items with me. It’s a pretty cool feature.

Here are a few summariezed reasons why you should either subscribe to this RSS feed or add me as a friend in Google Reader:

  1. I can’t write a blog post covering all the articles I read in a single day. If I did, it would really dilute my blog. Subscribing gives you access to great articles that I find on the Net.
  2. You can read articles that I read myself. It’s one thing to read my blog to learn, but its a complete different game to read the articles that I read myself that enable me to learn as well.
  3. You can connect with and find other very high quality blogs and blog authors. I don’t read junk blogs and I don’t share things with people that are crap. In many ways you can consider the items that I share with you as being premium content.
  4. It is very easy for me to share items with you as I read them. It is just a matter of me clicking a button in my web browser toolbar and adding a comment about the item I am sharing with you.

So anyway, I hope that you’ll accept my invite and I look forward to either becoming your friend within Google reader or having you subscribe to my Shared Items RSS Feed.

Also, you might have noticed this already, but my shared items also are being displayed on my blog on the left sidebar at the very bottom. 

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3 comments

1 Michael Henry { 12.06.08 at 1:40 am }

I did not notice the “Shared Items From My Google Notebook” but I’m glad I did. I’m checking out the link to the “perfect rounded corners in CSS”. Awesome.

Check out Michael Henry’s last blog post..Inspired Affiliate Marketing Challenge

2 Garry Conn { 12.06.08 at 2:09 am }

Oh man… dude, that article was the bomb! I love CSS and prior to reading that article, I thought that I knew CSS. I quickly realized after reading THAT!!! that I had a TON to learn about CSS. The author of that blog has some mad crazy CSS skills.

3 Garry Conn { 12.06.08 at 2:16 am }

I have to say this too… because it was in my head.

There is a WORLD of difference between reading articles that people physically SHARE with you in Google Reader, compared to things like StumbleUpon.

Unfortunately, and this might not be entirely true… but it is my perception, usually when I get an instant message about an article in Digg, SU, etc… or even in Twitter, there is some personal incentive behind the person who is informing me of the article being shared.

With Google Reader, its completely different…. there is NO INCENTIVE to share. If a friend shares something with you in Google Reader, typically it is truly because the friend wants to share something cool with you because they are being nice.

In my opinion, that is pretty damn valuable. And THAT is what you can expect to find when you read something I share with you via Google Reader or my Shared Items RSS Feed. I suggest that everyone take pride in what they share within Google Reader.

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