Feedly Groovy
A new year, a new blog and let’s start with a new web app. Thanks to Judy for twittering about Feedly. I started reading blogs about a year ago and really liked visiting the actual blog site due to the visual experience – there is a reason why people choose their themes and widgets, isn’t there!
The trouble with that method was that I had to remember to visit them regularly to see any updates.
After NECC08, I finally succumbed to an RSS reader. The first one I tried I hated (can’t even remember what it was), it was just full of unformatted text and no visuals. Later I tried Google reader which I liked a lot more and then moved onto using Google Reader in iGoogle. I was quite happy with it as I could check my feeds and twitter in the one window and the feeds looked a lot nicer and much closer to the real thing.
For the past few days I’ve been using Feedly. I love the magazine format with the side bar that lists the blog names and how many posts for each blog. Below that, it shows the blogroll of the blog that is selected. I’ve already added several more feeds due to this.
It’s easy to use, it looks nice and I’m much more likely to read more blog posts. There are a few things I’m not sure about: I can’t get my head around the ’spring cleaning’ button and how to get my feeds into categories.
Feedly adds a button to Firefox and I think it is popping up some other functions (on a thin left side bar) when you are on a blog page – not game to press those buttons yet in case I accidentally spam my PLN.
As a feed reader I would reccommend it highly – but warning, it may drastically increase the number of blogs you subscribe to.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I’ve just started using feedly too and find it an easy way to check on my favourite blogs etc. I am having trouble though with the subscribe icons on a blog not allowing me to subscribe in feedly. Probably something I’m doing wrong!
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January 12th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Hi Pamela,
I couldn’t work out how to add subscriptions to feedly, so I’d open Google Reader, add them there and then they would also appear in Feedly.
However, I noticed today that there is a little “+f” in the far right of my URL address bar, and when I click on it (on someone’s blog) it will add the blog to my feed.
It seems to be playing up tonight and has marke all my subscriptions as read! I’m hoping that they’ll magically come back tomorrow.
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January 16th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Hello Colin
I looked for your email to talk to you about the Animoto/photostory comment you made on my blog but couldn’t find it. Anyway, thank you. I have put up a new post where I have decided what the difference is if you are interested.
I’m afraid I go by many names – joy, alijoy and literacy resources on wikispaces just ot be alittle confusing.
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