Feeling clever...

Ok, I'm having a go at the first part of the RSS activity... as I'm typing this!

A few things I've noticed before I started this activity...

First, I'd used a "feeds" thingo (groovy-looking little orange button) before in Internet Explorer (I've somehow managed to get a new version of Internet Explorer which is a pain in the neck to use!) which I haven't found all that useful. It takes a bit of 'getting to' to see if anything new has arrived on any of the sites I've subscribed to through it.. so I'm going to stop using it and am hoping the Google reader one will be better - so far so good!

I had a look at the youtube video of 'how to use Google reader'.... it was ok for the first few minutes but then I started to get a bit lost with it all - there's lots to take in from a 9 minute video! I found I had to go back and look at parts of it again to get a quick refresher on how to do different things but it gives a good explanation.

I've also 'subscribed' to the other blogs from Learning 2.0 as well as a few others (not all that hard to do) and was a little concerned that it showed all previous posts as being 'unread' and so Google reader saw them as new content. I thought I'd have to 'look at' them all again but noticed the 'mark all items as read' button... what a nifty idea that is! :-)

I've also started a shared items page... there's not much there at the moment (Kendall Kids posts are just there as a test! The fact that the one post featuring "Uncle Robert" is on there is pure coincidence) but hopefully there will be in the future.

And... ta dah!!! I figured out how to put my shared items on my blog! It doesn't link directly to the shared items page of Google reader but instead takes you to the original blog. It's still kinda neat, though. Feeling very clever indeed! :-)