Google Reader

So google has come up with another new innovation to it's site.. google reader.

With google reader you can have subscriptions to different sites based on criteria that you are looking for. It is, in simple terms, an aggregator. You can go to one site, which will pull information from other sites and put them in one place. As simple as that.

In order to add feeds to your google reader account, you can 1) subscribe them. Meaning click the subscribe button, type in the information you want and then click add. 2) copying the URL of a blog you want to read, and 3) browse by username. All of these are as easy as they sound too! There are also other ways that you can find feeds and add them to your google reader account.

As I used google reader for a week, it was hard to get used to at first, however in the end, it saved me a lot of time. Instead of visiting every single website, one after another. I conveniently go to my google reader account, which also has my mail, my documents, and is a search engine, and then I can read all the information on one page. At first, I just wanted to go to all of my sites, but this creates a whole new feeling. It brings everything together for me. It also takes up a lot less time. It is easy, and allows me to share interesting articles I find. I also really like the fact that I can see what people find interesting. It broadens my information by a lot. Before google reader I would stick to the same sites and leave it at that. Now, I get different opinions, and a lot more information, but all in one place. The best part is, I don't have to search for it. It is all right there. It makes things a lot easier. This is for sure technology that I will use daily because it is easy and effective. It brings everything together instead of having me try to find it all.

first blog

So, as you can probably tell, I am new to this whole blogging experience. Before I created this one, I visited many others to try to grasp the concept. I visited twitter, google blogs and technorati. All these different blogging sites had the same idea, but all had different layouts. And as I went from page to page, that differed too. I learned that a blog is a website that can be made personal. The originator of the blog can put information about events, or the news or even about their life, the content can be up to the person who is writing it. I think that blogging is a new and interesting way to put information out for people to see. The media plays a big role in getting people's attention, but now that technology has become dominant, especially the internet, a blog is the perfect way to get things known.

Blogging is a very new concept, most people know about it, however they do not have it. But has it gets more popular and more well known, I think that a lot of people will start to make their own blogs. It could even become more popular than facebook which is known world wide. With the way that new sites come and go, blogging will be 'in' soon enough. I think that the world will be effected by the popularity of blogging, however not greatly. The amount of communication devices that are out there has already made the greatest impact. Blogging is just another way to communicate ideas. I think that it could make an effect with news companies because people blog about events and different news.

Blogger.com is, in my opinion an excellent site. I like how the person creating the blog is able to change the templates and make it very personal. Also, it is easy and quick to create. A blog should be able to give a person the chance to express anything they want; from events to something that happened in their day. Blogger.com is perfect for that, and is easy enough to do it quickly. It also allows the people reading the blogs to find things easy. But with that, it also keeps the originators personal information (email and address) in private, the public can not see it. Therefore it still keeps security. Blogger.com is fun and allows a person to be an individual... :)

I found that twitter is a website that is more about updating quickly what is new and what a person is up to. Where a blog is where a person can take the time and talk about their life or anything they want to. Twitter is well known through the celebrities. They are able to keep in contact with each other, and allows fans to keep up with the new gossip. Twitter is popular for celebrities, and I think that many people have it just because they play a huge role in our society.

Twitter is more useful for quickly updating where and what you are doing, where blogging is a more in depth look at different situations and events. Twitter is usually downloaded onto cell phones where people can up date their status on the go, while a blog takes time. I think that people get more out of blogging then they do off of twitter accounts, however twitter is more popular due to the amount of celebrities that have it.

thanks for reading,

alex prowse

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