Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)
Update: Already getting lots more tips from friends. I will keep updating this post.
Thanks to all who commented and linked to this post.
I follow about 80 blogs on a regular basis. I read about 10 online news sites. I am following some Flickr sites and some Yahoo!discussion groups too. If I were to go to each of these sites every day, it would take up lots of time. Also, I might go to some blog and find that it is not updated. It would be good to have a service that keeps track of all our favorite blogs.
The developers of popular blog services started building features on their software that automatically generate some thing called a RSS feed. (This file has information on the latest additions to the site’s content and this file is usually stored in a format called XML. For example click here to see my blog’s XML file.)
Most blogs and increasingly news sites, search engines and other web services are publishing these RSS feeds. People also started building tools called aggregators (also known as Feedreaders and Newsreaders). Aggregators can collect RSS feeds from many sites and present the fresh content from these sites on single page in a format that we can read.
One of most popular aggregator today is Bloglines. Bloglines is web based, you don’t need to download any software to your computer. Just create an account on their website and subscribe to your favourite blogs. You can then follow your blogs from a Mac at home, a Windows PC at office or a PDA at some airport.
This tutorial will show you how to sign up and subscribe to blogs with Bloglines. We will also show you some other interesting things you can do with Bloglines.
1. Signing Up
1a.
The first thing you need to do is sign up at www.bloglines.com.
Click on the Sign up link.
1b.
Bloglines asks you for your email address and a password. Make sure that you type in a correct email address as they will send you an email soon to verify your account.
Now click on the Register button.
1c.
Bloglines has now registered you, but it will send you an email to validate your account.
1d.
Check your email now. You will find a link on the email inviting you to verify your account.
Click on this line and your verification is complete.
2. Subscribing to Feeds
2a.
Make sure that your are logged on to your Bloglines account.
2b.
On this screen click on “My Feeds” on the top left corner.
2c.
Right now you will only see one “feed” - the default feed from Bloglines. We will subscribe to some more “feeds” now. Open another browser window and go to some blog. I am going to this popular blog called Boingboing.net.
2d.
You will see a link that says “rss”. On some sites this may appear as an orange RSS or XML button. Some sites may just have a “Syndicate” text. All these things mean the same thing. Right click on this “rss” link and select “Copy Link”. If you are using Internet Explorer, the option is “Copy Shortcut”
2e.
After you have copied the link, move back to the Bloglines window. In the left pane, click on the “Add” link.
2f.
Paste the URL that you copied into this “Subscribe” text box on the right pane.
2g.
Click on the Subscribe button. You will get a new page that summarizes some details of the feed that you just entered. We can just leave this page as it is. Scroll right to the bottom of this page and click on the Subscribe button again.
2h.
Now if you look at your left pane, you should see this new feed. The number in the bracket indicates the number of unread posts.
Click on this link.
2i.
On the right pane you will see the recent posts from the blog that you just subscribed to.
3. Subscribing to Feeds - Even easier method
3a.
Now lets try adding another blog. I like this blog on Japanese popular culture and I want to subscribe to it. Open another browser window and type http://www.peterpayne.net/.
Copy the site’s URL
3b.
Return to Bloglines. On the left pane click on the “Add” link.
3c.
On the right pane we see the Subscribe text box. Paste the URL into this text box and click on the subscribe button.
3d.
The next screen shows us some details.
Click on Subscribe button and this site’s feed will now be listed on the left pane.
3e.
You might be wondering why we did not copy the link to RSS like what we did with the earlier Boingboing blog. Well, Bloglines is able to auto-detect the feed address if you supply it the URL of a site. I just wanted to show you the two different ways of subscribing to a feed.
3f.
Sometimes when you subscribe to a site in this way (copying and pasting the site’s URL), you might see many feeds.
Don’t worry about this. This happens because most sites publish their feeds in various formats. These formats are basically the XML file written in different ways. Some sites may also include feeds for the comments and other data. We don’t care about this, so just select the first feed. If you want, you can click on the preview link to see how the site looks like on your Bloglines page.
Again scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Subscribe button.
3g.
It is even simpler when you want to subscribe to a site that is hosted on blogspot or livejournal or xanga.
Here I want to subscribe to a blog called http://lifeatngeeann.blogspot.com. So I will just just enter the blog name (lifeatngeeann) in the appropriate box. Bloglines knows about these popular blogging services, so I don’t have to type in the complete address.
Similarly you can subscribe to blogs on Xanga or Livejournal by just typing the site name in the specific box and clicking on the button next to it.
3h.
Some blogs also offer feeds for the comments. I subscribe to my blog’s’ comment feed. It is a good way of keeping track of what comments are coming in.
4. Bloglines as your research assistant
4a.
We want to track what people are talking about Kim Jong il - the North Korean leader. Lets go to a site called Feedster.com. We will run a search on Kim Jong il.
4b.
Here are the search results.
Note the orange coloured XML icon on the middle right of the screen.
4c.
Right click on this and select “Copy Link”. On IE it is “Copy Shortcut”
4d.
Go to the Bloglines window. Under “My Feeds”, click on “Add”. Paste this link inside the Subscribe text box on the right pane.
Click on Subscribe. The next screen will give you some details on this feed. Remember to again scroll to the end of that screen and click on the Subscribe button.
4e.
On the left pane you will see a “Feedster: Kim Jong il” feed. If you come back tomorrow and click on this link you will see some new items on Kim Jong Il.
5. Bloglines and Flickr - Subscribing to people’s Flickr photo albums
5a.
I want to be able to follow some Flickr user’s pictures just the way I follow blogs. I like the user Airchild’s pictures, so I will go her Flickr page.
5b.
I will copy the page address from top and paste inside my Subscribe text box.
5c.
Again we get several feed options.
We will just select the first one and click on the Subscribe button. (remember you can always preview the feed just in case you are not sure which of these feeds to select)
5d.
This is how the album looks like when viewed in Bloglines.
6. Subscribing to a Flickr Tag
Flickr Tags are a good way of keeping up with pictures on a particular topic. I love the Chinese city of Chengdu and I want to be able to see any new pictures of that city posted by any Flickr user.
6a.
Go to the Flickr home page. On the top line you will see a link “Tag”.
Click on this link. You will get a search box. Type in Chengdu or any other keyword you want.
6b.
Flickr will come back with the search result.
Now copy the URL of this page and paste it in Bloglines. (like what we did in step 5b and 5c above).
7. Subscribing to news sites
7a.
Lots of news sites have started adding feeds to their sites. Here I am at BBC new’s Asia Pacific news page.
I am copying the URL.
7b.
And I pasted the URL into the Subscribe text box.
Subscribe to the feed just like the earlier examples.
8. Subscribing to Podcasts
8a.
Lots of people have started doing regular audio programming or Podcasts on the web. Bloglines lets you subscribe to these Podcasts (think of Podcasts as audio blogs). Podcasters usually display the URL of of their podcast’s feed on their sites. For example this is the Dragon Radio blog - run by Tony Reno in HK and podcasting Asian music. I located the podcast feed and here I am copying his feed address.
8b.
And I pasted the URL into the Subscribe text box.
Subscribe to the feed just like the earlier examples.
8c.
This is how the podcast feed looks like within Bloglines.
At the bottom you see that “Enclosure” link. This “Enclosure” is like an attachment. It usually contains a mp3 file - the audio content of the podcast. You can click on this “Enclosure” link to play the audio or download the content onto your computer.
8d.
If you are looking for more Podcasts a good place to look is Podcastalley.
9. The Bloglines bookmarklet
9a.
Thanks to Ashwin and Deepak for pointing this out. You can actually add a Bloglines “bookmarklet” to you browser. A bookmarklet lives on the bookmark bar of your browser. They are small Javascript programs that can automate some of the repetitive tasks or add new functionality to your browser. Check out the left pane of Bloglines.
Click on the “Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet”
9b.
On the right pane you will see these instructions on using these Bookmarklets. For Safari, Netscape and Firefox browsers you can just drag the button the bookmark bar of your browser. For IE the process is slightly different and listed in the instructions.
In my case I am using the Safari browser, so I will just drag this button to the bookmark bar of my browser. It will stay put there for your future use.
9c.
Here I am on the slashdot.org site. I want to subscribe to the feed on this page.
I will click on the “Sub with Bloglines” bookmarklet on my browser’s bookmark bar.
9d.
Bloglines will show me the the feeds available on the page.
Just select the feed that you want and click on the Subscribe button.
10. Yahoo! Groups
Some Yahoo Groups open up their messages to the public.
If you see the orange XML button on your Yahoo! Group’s main page, then you can subscribe to this group’s feed. Just click on the “Sub with Bloglines” bookmarklet we tried in step 9. If you don’t have the bookmarklet on your browser, just copy and the URL of this Yahoo Groups page and paste in on Blogline’s Subscribe text box. (see step 3)
April 25th, 2005 at 9:44 am
Nicely done Rai! Hopefully after reading your post, more Internet users would be able to read a more diverse range of blogs, including the not so popular ones!
April 25th, 2005 at 12:34 pm
This is a really helpful, Preetam! Thanks.
April 25th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
This is good, Preetam. You posted it, just like we talked about in our IM chat. I’ve included your post in my overview of using RSS and Blogs. Thanks.
April 25th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Thanks Kevin, Anumita and Ivan.
I try to sneak in Bloglines in most of my classes just so that people can explore other blogs. I push it as a “time saving” utility but most of the time the users get addicted and probably end up spending more time on newly discovered blogs.
April 25th, 2005 at 5:48 pm
Preetam, an easier way of subscribing to a feed in bloglines, is to put a shortcut of the “Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet” on your favorites list. (It can be seen in the main page of your bloglines Ref. fig 5d). Once it is done visit any site and if you are interested in the feeds, click on the bookmarklet. This takes you to Fig. 5c with feeds options. Procced as normal.
PS: if you are in SG, we could meet up on Sat/Sunday evening. a spot of rum, perhaps.
April 25th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
anyone tried kinja.com before? it’s still under beta, but it seems to ‘auto-discover’ feeds better than what i have seen in bloglines (though i must admit i haven’t really used bloglines that much). but the ads on kinja are a real eyesore.
on another note, if only everyone used feedburner and named their feeds more intuitively… all this deciding between rss 0.91, rss 2.0 and atom is really an unnecessary bother.
April 25th, 2005 at 8:24 pm
Hey there, I love bloglines. But there’s a new competition in town. Check out http://www.rojo.com. I’m still in the midst of playing around with it. They claim that it’d help you manage hundreds or thousands of feeds more easily than bloglines does (something along that line).
April 25th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
great work rai.Bloglines is gonna link this as part of its help/tutorial.
April 25th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
As Ashwin says above, ‘Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet’ is really cool. Here’s the help page for that: http://www.bloglines.com/help/easysub
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This is one of the nicest Bloglines tutorials I’ve seen. I will be sure to point lots of people your way (including my mother)!
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April 26th, 2005 at 5:55 am
Wow. People really need this spelt out for them?
April 26th, 2005 at 6:21 am
You should get a medal for educating the masses. Really.
Regards,
J.
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Hi, Thanks for the comments. I am glad that you guys found it useful.
Jaffry, I tried Kinja before and YC, i tried rojo also, but I think bloglines has the neatest interface - the folder management is a bit confusing. The other reason I prefer doing Bloglines in my class if because the students can use their subscriptions as their blogroll.
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preetam, this is very useful … thank you for building the tutorial.
now can we be greedy and ask for one which compares different aggregators
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April 26th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
Cool. This finally convinced me to try bloglines. I think that in item 2b, you mean “left”, not “right”, though.
April 26th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
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April 26th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
Hi Preetam, thanks for the enlightening tutorial. And, this may seem really basic (but I hide behind my newbie veneer) - do you need to be a user of Bloglines yourself (or any other aggregator software) in order for others to receive feeds from your site?
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April 27th, 2005 at 2:17 am
Thanks for a great tutorial!
April 27th, 2005 at 4:10 am
I have hooked up with Bloglines for the past week, and I find that it is behind on collecting feeds i.e. it’s slow. It checks the feeds every hour, a little slow to check my Gmail account. If there’s a way to keep it more fresh, I’d like to know.
John
April 27th, 2005 at 4:11 am
BTW, this IS a great and detailed tutorial. I just have issues with Bloglines ability to keep up.
April 27th, 2005 at 5:08 am
Even better than the bookmarklet is the ivelines extension.
It changes the RSS detection icon in firefox to add that blog to bloglines (instead of a live bookmark)
April 27th, 2005 at 6:02 am
Great tutorial! I will be pointing my friends to your site whenever I tell them about Bloglines.
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I have long wanted to be able to link to a tutorial like this. It is a rare skill to be able to give enough information without giving too much. So many explanations of feeds and aggregators talk too much about what they are and not enough (for the novice, at least) about how to use them. I would like to see this tutorial expanded to show how to import someone’s public Bloglines subscriptions into their own Bloglines account.
April 27th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Great tutorial for Bloglines beginners! I’m going to put it in my bookmark sites in case I need to find it for a friend 8^)
I like using Bloglines folders to organize my feeds. I can click on the + sign to expand the folder feeds if I want to view each site’s feed seperately, OR I can just click on the folder to view ALL the feeds under that folder. I love that LOL
Bloglines is also great for sites that only have newsletters (yes there’s still sites with great content that don’t offer newsfeeds, sigh). I start up a new bloglines email, name it, pick which folder to put it in, then copy the auto-generated email address to enter into the site’s subscription form. If that site spams, it will show up in that email feed and I can just delete that one email feed if I want.
PS: Not all of this pages images loaded on my dialup connection 8^(
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April 29th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Thanks, great tutorial! It will be interesting to see how people keep up with the ever-expanding blogosphere. The sites ranking feeds by links are also interesting (like http://www.youreadme.com).
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Great tutorial. I’m definitely a fan - I plan on linking to it from my sites as a Bloglines starter.
My only suggestion (and it’s a small one) is in step 2d - where you explain what to look for on a webpage to find the feed - could be more explanatory given all the different options, and perhaps also accompanied by a screen shot example of the XML/RSS orange button might be good, given its prevalence?
May 1st, 2005 at 4:00 pm
Thanks to all of you leving comments and linking. I am travelling at the moment. Will update the tutorials by mid week next to add the newletters, OPML import etc. Thanks Kathy, Ian and Sherry for the suggestion.
And Pascoe, good suggestion. I will add the RSS/XML screen shot too.
Good weekend to every one.
Preetam.
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May 5th, 2005 at 10:40 am
This was VERY helpfull. Thank You!
May 6th, 2005 at 1:27 am
I tried to subscribe to bloglines before also but couldn understand.Thanks a lot,i subscribed to it justnow and i added the urls also,i feel so appy,u really put in such an informative tutorial.Thanks
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how many blogs can you realistically read, I have 50 blogs on which I get about 400 posts per week, even just trawling through them and marking the ones of interest takes around an hour, then reading the posts and links around the posts takes another 6-8 hours, I dont understand how someone can read 200 blogs! am i missing sometihng? thx
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That was so clear. Very well done tutorial! I just may have to link back to it if I ever get my blogging tutorial going.
Bloglines is excellent. They might want to hire you to do their tutorials!
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July 22nd, 2005 at 2:29 am
Bloglines lover, do you want seamless synchronization with bloglines via newsreader?
Then Check out greatnews man(http://www.curiostudio.com/).
There’s 4 major reasons why I love it:
1. It synchronizes with bloglins. Folder hierarchy is synchronized between Bloglines and Greatnews as well. you feel really comfortable to organize your feeds. You know how it sucks for feeddemon to synchronize with bloglines. Cause feeddemon only imports opml from bloglines without Folder hierarchy at all. So it’s a very hard for me to find a specfic feed and to organize those feeds. In all the desktop news clients, Greatnews’s synchronization with bloglines leaves rest news aggregators in dust. It’s like use outlook express to receive hotmail. Once you receive all the news from bloglines server in greatnews, all the news will be flagged read on bloglines online edition.If you love bloglines, you feel at home. Cause the interface and fold hierarchy looks the same like bloglines online version.
2. It’s extremely small. It only takes 800kb or so to install. You can even install it on a usb flash drive or even a floppy disk. So you take it everywhere to connect to Pc to use it. How cool is that?! It’s like you have yourself own mini newsgator server which can gurantee you won’t read the same news twice.
3. It runs with only a tiny memory and cpu engaged. So you won’t even notice it when it updates news in the background.
Above all it’s free.
You can configure greatnews to use firefox by option–>usability. Tick box before ‘open rss link in external default browser’.
As in your case, firefox is your default one.
You can also use it as outlook style by ticking view–>news list.
After that, once you click on a special feed, you will see all the news you received are displayed in a pane one by one as every single email item looklike.
There are still some sweet points about greatnews I can tell you below just in case you can put a relevant review in your website to let more people to be aware of a sweet piece of software, to less their pain of losing feeddemon.Here we go:
* 100% Unicode support. Displays international languages on the same page. Use any languages anywhere in GreatNews, including Search, Label and News watch. Like I read japanese news to do a research, greatnews displays all these south asian news so well including japanese, Chinese, whatevernese. Feeddemon can’t do this . As far as I know, feeddemon can’t support hebrew news,japanese news, and chinese news well.
** Full text search with keyword highlights. It’s very productive when you consider get things done.
* Integrated internet browser, with popup blocking. Working closely with default browser like Firefox. A kill point to please firefox fan.
* “Channel Organizer†helps organize channel subscriptions in one place. Use “Find Channel†to locate your subscriptions quickly. Again a great get things done tool.
* With Import/Export wizard, you can import/export all channel subscriptions in a single step.
* Export rss articles to rss 2.0 format. You can also customize the export by selecting channel/group/label, and/or applying filters.
*you can use ’search channel’ to keep eyes on special subject like ‘Ipod’, Like using feeddemon’s search channel and newsgator’s smart feeds. The difference is that smart feeds isn’t free but greatnews is.
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August 5th, 2005 at 3:14 am
Great tutorial on how to use Bloglines. Its really helpfull.
Take a look on this page to get an other tutorial on how to use Bloglines : http://alex.halavais.net/news/index.php?p=872
August 6th, 2005 at 9:58 am
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August 8th, 2005 at 6:29 am
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August 12th, 2005 at 7:40 pm
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August 26th, 2005 at 7:32 pm
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September 8th, 2005 at 3:39 am
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September 10th, 2005 at 7:36 am
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…you may wish to check out “Using Bloglines,” which goes into more detail and has more screenshots.
September 19th, 2005 at 4:58 am
[...] 7;m reading through my public showing of my Bloglines feeds. Still confused? Sorry. Try [...]
September 20th, 2005 at 10:28 am
Thanks so much for the wonderfull walk through. Well done!
September 20th, 2005 at 11:25 am
I am going to love Blogline. It is so easy to follow through.
September 23rd, 2005 at 3:13 am
[...] at I found… Introducing Bloglines A colleage of mine, Matt, posted an entry with a [...]
October 11th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
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October 27th, 2005 at 6:54 pm
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October 28th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
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October 28th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
Great review/tutorial! I have been using Bloglines for a little while now. I like the new keyboard shortcuts:
You can now navigate through Bloglines with hotkeys! You will find this legend at the bottom of each feed display page.
Hotkeys: j - next article k - previous article s - next sub f - next folder A - read all r - refresh left pane
November 4th, 2005 at 4:57 am
Hey, this is useful. I wish you wrote every tech manual / technical how-to / troubleshooting guide I ever have to use.
So what the heck, I’m putting out my wish-list item … the ‘my blog’ feature in Bloglines … man, is it ever difficult to figure out how to use it. Not intuitive. Why will it only let me upload a photo if the photo has a URL? What’s with that? My photos are all on my hard drive; I just want a ‘browse’ button function, to get and upload the photo. But the only available option I can find, insists that it be a URL. Also, how come I can’t get the ‘edit’ function to work? How do I change fonts? Or background colours? Or layout?
Lisa
November 12th, 2005 at 5:18 am
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November 23rd, 2005 at 2:08 pm
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December 30th, 2005 at 11:15 pm
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January 3rd, 2006 at 5:22 am
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January 11th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Thanks, thanks, THANKS!!!!
You can’t imagine how timely this tip has come to me… Your tutorial is outstandingly clear, and since I’ve discovered discussion groups and blogs (about a year ago), the number of sites to visit has been growing wildly! Bloglines will also mean I can reduce the number of things I get to my e-mail… I’m getting fed up with 70 messages a day, mixing so many things!
I’ll try Bloglines right now, and possibly tomorrow post an entry to my blog on how helpful some people in cyberspace are (look for your name there! ;)!)
January 26th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
To read RSS feeds, check out my tool “Build-in RSS Client” (http://www.dat-it.com/). Its an MS Internet Explorer toolbar for handling RSS feeds.
February 1st, 2006 at 11:25 am
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February 2nd, 2006 at 12:06 am
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February 5th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
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February 18th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
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February 21st, 2006 at 1:21 am
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March 3rd, 2006 at 10:33 pm
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March 10th, 2006 at 2:54 am
Kathy,
A nice tutorial! I was particularly fond of the screen shot that showed “copy link location.” One challenge in my early use of bloglines is remembering the syntax of the link to add.
Thanks!
March 13th, 2006 at 8:23 am
[...] Ready to get started? I recommend using Bloglines as your aggregator. It’s a website, so you can get at your feeds wherever you go. Think of it as the GMail of RSS. (Yeah, Google has a reader, but I’m not impressed.) Preetam Rai has an excellent tutorial on getting started with Bloglines. Check it out! [...]
March 13th, 2006 at 8:49 am
[...] Ready to get started? I recommend using Bloglines as your aggregator. It’s a website, so you can get at your feeds wherever you go. Think of it as the GMail of RSS. (Yeah, Google has a reader, but I’m not impressed.) Preetam Rai has an excellent tutorial on getting started with Bloglines. Check it out! [...]
March 18th, 2006 at 1:04 am
[...] Traducción de: Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday) publicado en betterdays [...]
March 18th, 2006 at 5:53 am
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March 21st, 2006 at 9:37 am
[...] I would recommend that you take a look at the following two readers and choose the one you like best: bloglines or Google Reader. You can find two tutorials on how to use bloglines here and here. [...]
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:12 am
[...] RSS feeds provide the best way to keep up with constantly updating sites and although it often seems intimidating for a first time user, it is actually very easy to use. Preetamrai.com even has a very helpful walkthrough about setting up Bloglines for the first time. Also FaganFinder.com, as a very detailed reference about everything related to RSS. So give it a shot and if you are looking for some good feeds to subscribe to, then check out my blogroll. Posted by Colin Filed in Article, RSS, Online [...]
April 4th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Excellent article. My bloglines experience is here…
http://tinyurl.com/mrkw7
April 13th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
[...] If the word RSS is totally unknow but you would like to keep up with dozens of blogs and other sites everyday check this Bloglines tutorial on how to do just that. [...]
April 22nd, 2006 at 7:42 am
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April 24th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
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May 30th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
[...] The latter is an online feed reader. It’s fairly new but already gaining a lot of popularity among readers. Another extremely popular online feed reader is Bloglines. Preetam Rai has an extensive article on how to use the service from Bloglines along with colour illustrations. Andy Wibbels has gone a step further and created a video demo on how to use the Google Reader service. I would recommend going through these two guides before deciding which to go for. If Bloglines have problems reading the feeds of a particular site or one of your own, it won’t try reading it again for another 24 hours. This 24 hour delay, is called the Bloglines Penalty Box. [...]
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Love this ‘how to’ guide!! It’s beautiful and simple! Have linked many others to it too
Bloglines is a lovely simple subscription service - it works nicely for me…
thanks again!
June 24th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
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August 11th, 2006 at 9:48 am
[...] I was honored to do a morning and afternoon session and there were some good questions, great participation, and a few people who created their own blogs. If I’m honest I think I was better in the morning than the afternoon - more energy. The afternoon group didn’t seem to have as many questions. I have added a link on my wiki to a bloglines tutorial for those who are interested. I walked both groups through the process of setting up an account but I did not provide a handout for this part so if you need something to refer back to you can try this link. [...]
September 13th, 2006 at 2:03 am
[...] Here’s a tutorial that explains how to use the site [...]
September 18th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Excellent tutorial, except 2d is no longer used. they may have changed something since you posted.
September 18th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
[...] Another important aspect of this course is use of your Bloglines account. Bloglines will allow you to subscribe to content from the web, including news sources, blogs, photo galleries, podcasts, videocasts, etc. Once you begin to view the web this way, you will realize