Seems to be a way of linking websites regularly visited and receiving updates from those sites. It certainly saves the time and effort involved in doing the same search or repeating a search for a website.
It would be very useful in libraries & for personal browsing. But there are privacy issues that are not really addressed, in the monitoring of how information is being directed and used. Did not create a Google reader account using blog username and password, as they are not connected to a Google email account.
Tried some of the search tools to find feeds. 'Feedster' was very easy to use and encompassed news, blogs and podcasts. 'Topix' was more confusing - it's cluttered homepage didn't help. 'Google Blog Search' was very straightforward to use with just a topic name entered, but limited only to blogs.
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I tend to overload my feedreader and then have to wade through hundreds off unread feeds to locate useful information.
Thanks goodness for the "mark all read" button
Lynette
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