Kristen Howerton is one of my first friends through blogging and therefore she will not mind that I am lazily linking to her instead of helping you all by myself. In her post, Kristen mentions denial over Google Reader going away. Oh yes, uh huh, me too. I just pretend changes like this are not happening until the very last second.
For those of you that don’t know, Google Reader is the way that most people have subscribed to blogs. It’s the RSS feed (Grandma, neither of us really need to know how this works, it just does, quite smoothly, and now it’s leaving.)
So anyway, Google Reader is going away. TODAY. So if you subscribed to the things you love to read via a Google Reader, Kristen has written up an excellent tutorial on what you need to do TODAY to NOT LOSE ALL THE REALLY FANTASTIC THINGS YOU LOVE TO READ. It’s not as scary to move them to a new reader, if you follow Kristen’s simple instructions.
I really hope one of those things is Kristen’s blog Rage Against the Minivan, because it’s fantastic.
Do you want to know something I do? (I know, riveting and you are holding your breath and waiting on pins and needles.)
I subscribe to my very most favorites via email. All you have to do is put your email address in the subscribe by email box and then okay when you get an email and bam boom pow, you get new posts to your email every time.
That’s all I know, so go on over and visit Kristen. She knows more stuff.
But look at this photo first. Cute huh?
Miles and Elsie Jane (and a big cow)
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Adorable picture! Adorable kids! Love the smiles and the angle of the picture. Beautifully rich colors.
I have only been blogging a little over a year, and I was unfamiliar with Google Reader, until I heard all the moaning about it going away. I have only found blogs by reading blogs, then following someone’s comment to their blog, and so on and so forth. That is, until recently, when I started in participating in The Daily Post at WordPress, where they have different prompts for writing and photos. If I can follow by email, I do!
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That’s cool. I didn’t know wordpress did different prompts for writing. Such a good way to be inspired.
I often find myself discovering blogs through comments too. I call it “going down the rabbit hole” :)
I am whispering: I never gave up my old blog on blogger so I still read blogs through their ancient dashboard. SSSSSSHHHH before they figure it out and kill that too. I don’t want to do the email subscription because I am bad at managing it. I can remember my handful of absolute must reads but then there are others I love that I need to be reminded about. I don’t like BlogLovin and can’t use Feedly because of Firefox. So, for now, I’m hoping the dashboard continues to work for me. (And like Rob says about, comments are how I find a lot of new people but I agree — rabbit hole).
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Thank you for the info and the link…I am so techno-challenged that I never did figure out how to use an RSS feed in the first place. I am grateful for the tips and will be checking back for more. Glad to connect via Twitter, and now here. :)
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Elsie Jane is looking like such a big girl now!
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