Assim para me deixar de chatear com esta coisa resolvi googlar um pouco e descobri este script para o GreaseMonkey, um add-on para o Firefox.

Basicamente este script filtra as entradas e elimina as duplicadas, entradas indesejadas ou então realça conteúdo através de um filtro baseado em keywords.

Para mais info dêem um salto aqui. Para instalar cliquem aqui (devem ter o GreaseMonkey instalado).

P.S - Atenção que este filtro só funciona na vista em lista e não na expandida

STUDENT TWEETS: Everyone has to start somewhere.

I started Twittering in February with no idea what I was doing. How did I become acclimated? I was online three or four times a day looking up tech news, reading Mashable and TechCrunch, NYT Tech columns, PRWeek, Business Week, poring over Google Trends, getting GMail alerts for news and blog posts on PR and Social Media, virtually all of the blogs in my Google Reader were tech and PR blogs. I needed to be able to engage with the people who were on Twitter about things that were important to them.

When LaunchSquad, found me on Twitter, though, it was because I'd "tweeted" about one of their clients - Vivaty.

TWITTER ON THE JOB?

JetBlue was one of the first business Twitter feeds that I followed and actually tweeted back at. They are one of the best Twitter business models I've seen.

When I started here, one of the first things I was asked to do on each of my accounts was either establish or revamp their Twitter activity. I wrote a Twitter strategy based on a case-study on JetBlue's Twitter activity.

WHY I PAY ATTENTION: Their 4,800 followers are resulting from updates about their flight schedules, flying/travel tips and steady responses to customers and other Twitterers.

WHAT I TAKE AWAY: To be savvy with customers and Twitter, you need to pay attention to what they're saying. People often express frustrations with software and companies on Twitter.

Another great example is Mighty Leaf Tea. They're hardly tech, but they're in the East Bay and so here in San Francisco - and silicon valley, we're big fans. They've got great, unique flavors which makes for great "Tweets". 

WHY I PAY ATTENTION: They're not tech. At all. They sell tea, for god's sake. But they come up with useful ways to discuss their products over Twitter and currently have 500+ followers in their pocket.

WHAT I TAKE AWAY: They post "relevant" issues and articles and are engaged in their industry beyond just their product - like the above post: List an interesting article and bring it back to the product. Very nice.

THE SKINNY

I suggest before taking on a client's Twitter campaign, work on beefing up your own feed in addition to the rest of your online presence. Social media savvy applied to personal uses can only help when you're asked to do it for a client.

A friend of mine and former intern here at LaunchSquad, Ben Kessler, has a great blog as well as a juggernaut Twitter following (currently at 579) and has managed 6,200+ updates so far - In September he averaged 24 updates a day. Makes me tired just thinking about it.

In my own case, I eventually found an even balance for my Twitter feed: my initial rabid tech/PR discourse combined with a cultural commentary (articles, music, film, events) and have - to reinforce Julia Roy's point - seen a steady increase of 5-10 new follower's a week.

Once you've honed this aspect of social media - and not to imply, by any means, that I have - you've become a valuable asset to any company, client and agency as they all are trying to figure out what Twitter means and could do for their business.

I love it when neighboring headlines in Google reader contradict each other. Though in this case it's not so much a sorting accident as, well, Gov. Sarah Palin maybe sending mixed messages that appear to be picked up only by Politico.com?

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I often get email requests asking to subscribe to my "feed" and the other day someone asked about distributing a podcast via RSS.  This represents a somewhat discombobulated understanding of RSS and feeds, so I thought I'd try to explain these terms / concepts.  (I should note that I really don't know all that much about RSS -- just enough to maintain my blog -- but on the upside, "just enough" is probably good enough for many.)

What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (and something else I can't remember, but that doesn't much matter).  Think of it as electronic subscription service -- instead of getting your newspaper delivered to your front door, RSS allows you to get your newspaper stories delivered to your RSS reader.

What is an RSS reader?
A reader is a website that allows you to read the stories (or posts) for websites and blogs to which you choose to subscribe.  Readers include Bloglines, Google Reader, NewsGator and others.

What is a feed?
A feed allows an online publication or blog to distribute their stories to readers via RSS.

How does this all differ from an online newsletter?
An online newsletter is simply a message that is emailed to a distribution list.  There is no feed involved.  (In the case of The Book Publicity Blog, I maintain an email distribution list for people who prefer not to check the blog online / in an RSS reader -- after I post online, I simply copy and paste the information into an email message and send it out.)  So when you ask if you can subscribe to The Book Publicity Blog, you're asking if you can subscribe to the email newsletter, not to the blog's feed (since you woud subscribe to the feed yourself).  Apparently, I could also have Feedburner send out my blog posts via email automatically ... although that would mean I wouldn't have time to correct posts after publishing them!

Why set up an RSS reader?
A reader is an efficient way to consolidate all your websites and blogs.  You can quickly scroll through all headlines and click through only to those stories in which you are interested -- instead of visiting many websites a day, you can simply look in your reader and view the content on all of them.

Exactly how efficient is a reader?  I subscribe to almost 300 websites and blogs and I whip through all these headlines every day or every couple days when I'm busy.  Before I had an RSS reader, well, let's just say I sure wasn't following almost 300 websites daily.  Sarah Palin obviously doesn't have an RSS reader.  (Granted, following all these sites is far more important for a publicist making their living working with the media than for someone who following the news for fun.)

Here, the blog Men With Pens weighs in on why they like their readers.

How do I set up an RSS reader?
Click here for instructions about how to set up a reader and here for some publishing websites you may want to put in your reader.

Why is it important for a blog to have a feed?
You know the story of the tree that falls in the woods?  (If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does it make a noise?)  A blog without a feed is like the tree falling with no one around -- it doesn't make a "noise."  Unless someone is so beholden to you that they will check your website every single day, you can assume that they won't check your site.  In other words, there's no way to build a regular audience for your blog without a feed (since most of us have a limited number of blood relatives and best friends).

I initially thought feeds had to be established by the site / blogger using a tool like Feedburner, but as you can see from the Comments, feeds are usually built in to standard blogging platforms like Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress.  (I have occasionally encountered blogs without feeds, though, so if you are blogging, it's worthwhile testing out your feed.)

If you do use Feedburner, there are other cool things you can do (again, see Comments).

I think that covers the basics ...

Uwaga: jeżeli chcesz być informowany o nowych postach na blogu wybierz opcję po prawej stronie bloga, czyli tu ->

Możesz użyć np. przeglądarki albo ulubionego czytnika RSS (np. Google Readera) do wyświetlania kanału RSS tego bloga, albo możesz zapisać się żeby informacje o nowościach na blogu były wysyłane Ci na mejla. Wszystko możesz dostosować do swoich potrzeb. W ten sposób będziesz na bieżąco z nowościami na tym blogu!

Przewiń dalej aby przeczytać posty :)

It's been a long while since I posted a Bobspotted Blogroll post.  With Google Reader, it's easier to share my posts one by one.  Rather then abandon the blogspot idea altogether, I plan on posting Blog Finds posts where I share articles or links one at a time.  This will allow more interaction from you, my readers, and I hope it will serve my blog readers well.

Proponents of Biblical Theology, particularly those who hold to redemptive historical hermeneutics, often speak of the apostolic hermeneutic.  We see how the Apostle's interpreted the OT Bible and draw lessons for how we should interpret it as well.

Now this approach is often misunderstood or even maligned by other Bible scholars, particularly dispensationalists.  R. Scott Clark addresses this issue in an excellent post (actually a re-post) at his Heidelblog.  I'll provide some excerpts and encourage you to read the excellent post for yourself.  He provides book recommendations for where to pursue this hermeneutical approach further, too.

It’s isn’t that complicated. Pay close attention here: The Apostolic hermeneutic is to see Christ at the center of all of Scripture. We’re not reading him into Scripture. We’re refusing to read him out of it. There, I said it. That’s what it is. Perhaps the reason our dispensational friends cannot see it is because they are blinded by their rationalism. They know a priori what the organizing principle of Scripture must be and it isn’t God the Son, it’s national Israel....

Yes, Reformed folk (and others) have been reading the bible like this for a very long time. The earliest post-apostolic Christians, in contrast to the Jewish critics of the Christian faith, read the Bible to teach a unity of salvation organized around Jesus Christ. The entire medieval church read the Bible this way as did the Reformation and post-Reformation churches....

What method do we use? It’s grammatical and historical! It reads the Old in the light of the new. It doesn’t set up arbitrary a priori’s about what can and can’t be. We don’t begin with an unstated premise, “All reasonable people know p.” We don’t think that any uninspired hermeneutic (system of interpretation) is superior to Paul’s or James’ or Peter’s.

One need not be inspired to read the Bible the way the apostles did. I’m not even sure it’s proper to say that their hermeneutic was inspired. We confess that Scripture is inspired, but was their way of reading Scripture inspired? I doubt it. As John Frame used to ask in class, were the apostolic grocery lists inspired? No. Can we observe how they read Scripture and imitate it? Yes....

Read the rest of the post for yourself.  And let me know what you think of it.

It took me awhile, but I finally figured out the whole “RSS / ATOM” feed thing. Wordpress wasn’t making it easy like Blogger, to simply click on an Atom feed link to subscribe to a blog, and it’s because they wanted me to rise to their level of intelligence over the whole matter. And really, it is quite simple. So I’ve added an RSS Trudger widget in my taskbar for you in case you want to take an easier route to my blog. Michael showed me how Trudger appears on his iPod feed reader, and it was pretty nice! I personally like Google Reader for reading the various blogs I like to keep up with. It gives Trudger the traditional white background format that I have had a tendency to prefer without having to change my current theme design. Well, that’s enough geekiness for one day, I think. Better get back to sorting my Magic cards.

A while back my husband introduced me to Google Reader by using RSS feed subscriptions.

Man, I'm glad I have him! Thanks to this information I'm able to stay on top of all the blogs and webpages I enjoy reading.

It's similar to reading a newspaper really. Sometimes you can skim the titles and the first couple paragraphs and feel like you are informed. Then you can read further if you want to ingest all the information the article has to offer.

But with google reader I can save them to read later or scroll through to mark them as read to clean it up. If I find something that's really important and I want to refer back to it, then I star the item to keep forever, without having to clip articles and figure out what to do with them and where to store them, never referring to them even though I had every intention of doing so.

Google reader has now become one of the tabs on my browser and I refer to it often throughout the day to stay updated on what's important to me - cycling news and LOL Cats. (Oh, and I do use it for some local news as well.)

Google reader and my husband has saved me! Now I have time to ride and still stay informed!

Glenn also suggests trying out Google Reader available at www.google.com/reader with offers cool user interface with CSS and AJAX features. The application works and looks fine, but as I have been warned do not try it with Opera, it works with E71’ default browser only.

In the meantime I’ve discovered that a popular IM application called Nimbuzz www.nimbuzz.com is updated to version 0.9.4 now. Try it if you don’t know the app, or update it in hope of better stability.
What is still confusing is (in)availability of Yahoo! Go for Nokia E71. “Download!” application on your E71 offers installation of version 2.0. Unfortunately E71 is not present on the lists of phones compatible with either version 2.0 or 3.0 at go.yahoo.com, so Download! is actually the only way to get it. I personally hope it will change and version 3.0 will be available soon.

P.S. Huge thanks to Glenn for hints about Google applications.

First,  some noteworthy web apps I use regularly that never had equivalents on my desktop:

• Twitter - microblogging
• Blogger, Wordpress - blogging

Next, the web apps that have replaced their desktop equivalents:

• Diigo, Del.icio.us - bookmarking
• Yahoo Mail, Google Mail- email
• Yahoo Contacts, Ovi - contacts
• Google Calendar, Ovi - calendar
• Google Reader, Feedly - feed reader
• Google Notebook, Evernote - note-taking
• Google Documents, Zoho - word processing, spreadsheets, presentations
• EditGrid - spreadsheets
• Autodesk Project DRAW - drawing
• Aviary - image, color, and vector editing
• Meebo - instant messaging
• Toodledo - get things done (GTD)
• TSheets - time management
• MindMeister - mind mapping

Finally, the storage I currently use in cyberspace, replacing my local storage:

• Box.net
• DropBoks
• Gspace - turns each Google Gmail account into a virtual 8GB "drive"

The redundancy you see in some cases is deliberate and you can consider it as risk management. I also use various synchronization programs, all freely available to synch online services on the web with my Nokia N95 8GB and Windows Vista desktop, the latter is mainly to ensure high availability of my data in the absence of an Internet connection or when a service is offline. Google Gears takes care of my data from many of their online services with an offline mode synched to my desktop, so I use this as well. I'm using the free versions of all of the services I've listed, which completely fills my needs for now. I use the Firefox 3 browser almost exclusively, but I'm also testing Google Chrome. To ensure ultimate portability "on the go" I keep some open source portable applications, including a Firefox 3 browser with all of my addons and plugins along with Google Chrome, on a 2GB USB memory stick on my keychain.

I've kept this post relatively short because I plan to go deeper into detail later about these and other web apps I'm using. I mainly wanted to start a dialogue about the use of these web apps and their lessening of our dependence on the desktop and local storage, so I'm looking forward to seeing your comments about your own experiences.  I've already become fairly comfortable living in my browser as a denizen of cyberspace, what about you?

Related articles:

• Use Web apps offline with Google Gears

I completely suck at numbers. I could give a crap about the stock market. I tune out politics since I'm sick and tired of the same 'ole rhetoric. And if you're like me, you most likely skip over all the panicked headlines about how the $700 billion bail out got kicked from Congress.

I mean really - why would all this junk be relevant to regular people like us? The headlines are too damn depressing and most importantly - we don't have power, money or stature for any of this to really matter ANYway - right? Wrong.

Listen to me, you guys:
Now is not the time to tune things out.

Why is this important for people like us? Because well... I kinda sorta wanna know if I should close all my bank accounts and hide the cash under my mattress - don't you? It's also uhhh election year, too. And as much as I want to turn the other way, this time, I can't. All the signs are pointing to: our country is in deep shit.

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the rest of America doesn't seem like they know what's going on either. Just ask someone to explain the stipulations of the 110 page bail out and how / what we (Americans) need to do to protect ourselves moving forward. Or the presidential candidates' action plans to rectify this economical disaster. I guarantee not everyone can - regardless of who or what their pedigrees are.

So you see, now is the time - more so than ever, that we the regular people, need to come together. And if enough of us get together, our voices WILL matter. How do we do that? It's about gathering information.

Yes, I know reading the headlines is depressing, but educating ourselves so we're aware of the current happenings is a must; so we can get involved to make differences. How do we get involved? Well that's up to you - the reader to decide.

But what I CAN do for you, is provide resources to keep and stay informed. Hubs, if you will, so you don't have to dig through and search to stay involved. Please remember, to take account all sides, know your options, and if and when action is called - don't hesitate and go for it. Whether it be by voting, informing people around you, or just informing yourselves, knowing and keeping up with the current situation means you have power to decide what to do with the knowledge.

So without further ado, I present to you:
"Mona's Top 5 Resources to Stay "Smart" - the Lazy Way"
1. NPR's Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/understanding_the_crisis/
NPR tags all articles pertaining to the financial crisis. It's just one click, and it pulls up all recent articles. The layout is easy on the eyes and there's no hunting or pecking through a mountain of pages to stay up to date.
2. Google News: Top Stories: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en-US
I prefer Google News over Yahoo news because it's A) customizable B) I can personalize it and C) easy on the eyes. All the top headline news from various sources are aggregated there. Pretty neat.
3. Harvard Business Online's Guide to the Downturn: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/downturn/
A bunch of articles from really super smart people that are free. Plus the layout is nice, easy on the eyes, and surprisingly, the information is relevant to normal people, too. Don't be fooled, go check it out. Even if you think it's irrelevant, you can namedrop like I do. "OH YA? Bet you don't know what HARVARD professors are saying!" - or something close to that. ha!
4. Google Power Readers: http://www.google.com/googlereader/powerreaders/index.html
Explore news sites read by McCain, Obama and political journalists and see articles the campaigns and political pundits are sharing with Google Reader. What's better than knowing what they're reading and sharing!
5. Aggregating Sites like FriendFeed
Since signing up for FriendFeed, I've been exposed to a lot of new blogs, different views, from so many different sources. The best part is, you can see what others are sharing, and choose if you want to read it or not. If you see the same headline shared by numerous people, it's a sign telling you: "READ IT, STAT!"

That about wraps it up.
I hope this can help you, as much as it's helped me. :)

And remember, this is election year.
Our economical and country's future is dependent on us - We the people. :)

Update: Head on over to Scripting News. Dave Winer has a great write-up: "The Us Economy After Katrina".

Update 2: Louis Gray posted this on his blog! WOW! (and he was kind enough to edit, correct my grammar, and turned the piece more "PG" LOL) "Top Resources to Help Stay Informed In a Crazy World"

Update 3: My good friend Justin Korn has chimed in, too. "What the &@#$ is Happening? Are You Informed?" Spread the word, everyone!

I wonder what some good, inexpensive, relatively healthy food options are for the incredibly lazy.  So far, I've been doing peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, frozen pizzas, spaghetti, bananas, salad-in-a-bag, macaroni and cheese, and cold cereal.  Oh, and I also have eggs and mayonnaise and sliced cheese for the occasional sandwich.

I need to get a microwave, and I would like to get a blender at some point, too.  We'll see when I can make it fit my budget.

Um, other things that are happening to me.  I'm reading through the archives of the webcomic Questionable Content.  It's a bit much on the soap opera drama side for me, but now that I know this they've got me hooked on the damn characters, the bastards!  I think they could almost make a whole serparate comic about Pintsize, the comic relief Anthro-PC (read: robot pet).  Anyway, QC has also rubbed me the wrong way once or twice with what might be perceived as sexism.  Interesting, because it does overtly address some of the characters' actions in one strip as being sexist, so the author is at least aware that sexism exists.  Strangely enough, I was mostly perceiving the reinforcement of male stereotypes, and I assumed that the author was female.  Turns out, it's a guy writing the strip.  So the stereotypes combined with the over-all mushiness of the ... questionable content... is throwing me off when I know it's a dude wearing the pants of the comic.

Having said all that, I do think the author has a strong grip on the realities of human interaction, emotions, and relationships.  And he manages to be funny at the same time, so well done there.  That's why I'm still reading it.

One last piece of randomness from my day.  I have Warren Ellis' blog on my Google Reader, and he linked this musician recently.  He, and I, seem to enjoy his stuff: http://www.myspace.com/samrussomusic

Today's installment of Google Gab comes a day late.

So far I have covered Google Search and iGoogle.  Today I will discuss the the tool I use as much as iGoogle and Google Search- Google Reader.  Google Reader is a great way to organize the blogs that you read.  I figured it would be much easier to show how to use it than to explain it in words.  Then I found a couple of excellent YouTube videos showcasing ways to use Google Reader and how to set it up.  So, why reivent the wheel??  Here are some excellent tutorials on all things Google Reader!

Very Basic Tutorial on How to use Google Reader

Adding Subscriptions

Viewing RSS Feeds

For more Advanced Users- Organizing your feeds

A special thanks to expertvillage for the tutorials.

You can also add you Google Reader to your iGoogle! I have mine fed there and I can keep track of all of my blogs on my iGoogle page.  To add this, go to your iGoogle Page and click on "add stuff".  Search for Google Reader and follow the  prompts.

**Please note-  My schedule has done a lot of changing.  From today on, I will post Google Gab Tuesday evenings.  Thanks to all of you who are subscribing or coming back each week!

Since my 32 hour/week internship answered my supervisor's call for a 10-15 hour/week intern, I see this personal time as legitimate. That is why, when I'm not preparing maps, making contacts, going to meetings, writing descriptions, or taping pictures, I'm on the Internet, reading. I read blogs, articles, PowerPoints, pdfs, and abstracts to learn what I want to learn. I found a great website for future graduate schools, a publishing company I'd like to make my contact, and projects done by the people I've met on the Mag Mile. Small world, that Internet.

I encourage each of you to use Google Reader.  Any website that publishes content on a regular basis (and has an RSS feed) should be available to subscribe to. You can even subscribe to my blog. Pretty darn cool. Information comes to you. Ideas. Messages from God. YOU NEVER KNOW!  You just need a Gmail account. Which you should have, too, because it's the Best Mail Service ever.

I guess all these proddings come from me finally giving into the awesomeness of Internet writing. That's probably why I'm trying it myself. I never thought bloggers could make money. I thought the Internet would kill books. The opposite is happening. Books are easier to find. Smart conversations are happening on the most forward-thinking websites I've ever seen. This is our future Convention Center. Common Ground.

Maybe I'm getting too religious about the Internet. I'm going to Holy Name Cathedral to confess my idolatry now.

Читая новостные ленты, часто хочется поделится с другими новой информацией. Раньше приходилось писать имейл, выбирать и заполнять получателей, вписывать комментарии и т.д. С распространением системы доставки контента через RSS подобные протоколы, жить определенно стало легче. Все знают насколько удобней и эффективней стало читать, сохранять, искать. Так что тут не об этом.

Пол года назад была анонсирована новая функция Google Reader - Делиться (Share). После этого каждый стал делиться прочитанным через собственную RSS ленту, естественно фильтруя информацию через призму своих интересов. В то же время получая "отборное" от своих друзей.

Так при большом входящем объеме статей, новостей, блогов получаем качественный, проработанный небольшой группой однодумцев, выходящий поток информации. При этом, чем объективнее группа, тем лучше; чем более узкий круг интересов, тем тематичнее получиться фильтр и т.д. Алгоритм прост: Получил -> Отфильтровал -> Отдал. Схематично это выглядит так (^):

Всегда будет подсеть прочитавших что-то одинаковое и можно оценивать информацию по количеству апробаций. То есть, чем больше людей прочитали и передали дальше, тем ценнее прочитанное. Такая читающая сеть (Reading Society) способна учить, учиться и эволюционировать.

Несмотря на то, что потребуются улучшения, такая простая технология выглядит перспективной, а главное, натурально дополняет ежедневную человеческую деятельность. Может это и есть одна из немногих мягких машин, что так естественно идут с нами по жизни.

Here are the results -

• I have 34 subscriptions in my google reader.
• Gaming Steve hasn't posted anything new since the 24th June which was a Diablo III announcement. GS was a champion of Spore for what seem like forever, way before the game release. Maybe he's sucked into Will Wrights creation for good? Am debating on removing this feed...anyone know what Gaming Steve is up to currently?
• Book of Grudges has become the most updated feed in my reader. The guys there cover mostly WAR & are members of the I2I guild of which I am a member. There's been some great posting going on over there in recent weeks. Worth a peak if your into your WAR gaming.
• Out of the 34 subscriptions, 11 concentrate the majority of their content on WAR - 7 of which are in my Top Ten most update feeds.A 3rd of all that I read through google reader is what can be classed, WAR gaming related...hmm...seems a little unhealthy.
• Only 4 of my feeds are from non-game related sites: Liverpool FC[oh, you beauty...], a mix bag[Soul Kerfuffle], Heroes[Beaming Beeman]. Again I think this is unhealthy for my reading & a cull of some of the WAR feeds maybe in order to restore a little balance.

My outcome -

I know I need a more cosmopolitan depth of content from my feeds which will keep my reading interesting & proactive when it comes to adding future content here on Construed. I'll porbably cut back on some of the gaming feeds I subscribe to, readying some room for future subscriptions. So If you have a feed you feel worth reading, please let me know by adding a comment here or dropping me an email.

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I know you all are busy folks and you may not have time to check all your favorite site but I want to urge you to read mine when you have time!  Please feel free to add tokoMobile to your favorite RSS reader...now if i could just find the link to my RSS....

Update: tokoRSS Subscribe here!

What I can comment on is this passage from the Rich column:

That was not the only bad news raining down on McCain. His camp knew what Katie Couric had in the can from her interview with Sarah Palin. The first excerpt was to be broadcast by CBS that night, and it had to be upstaged fast.

McCain did succeed in temporarily upstaging the Couric interview.  I, for one, didn't watch it until this morning, 4 days or so after it originally aired. The key word, however, is temporarily. The interview is still widely available all over the internet and since its airing, I've received countless communications about it: emails, blog posts, Google Reader shares, Facebook postings, etc. etc.  Even though everyone was focussed on the debate through Saturday afternoon, the Couric interview did not and will not die until everyone who wants to see it does.

It's another excellent example of the democratic power of the internet.  Campaigns, and even the mainstream media itself, have much less control over the news stream than they did even 4 years ago. The "American people" don't just see what "they" want us to see.  More than ever, we see what we want to see.  And if I think a news item is particularly informative, it's incredibly be easy for me to disseminate it. With several clicks, I can share it with my 300+ Facebook friends, share it on my Google Reader, put it on my blog, email it to friends and family, and, newly, post it to my NYTimes Network, not to mention highly popular services that I don't use, like Digg, Mixx, and Yahoo! Buzz.  Distribution is suddenly, in large part, an operation of the masses.  We might be entering the Curation Generation, where we all collectively decide what's important, what's good, and finally, what gets attention.

So here I go with some distribution...well, where not all the way there yet...the embed function of the CBS News video isn't really working with my hosted Word Press.  Here are some links:

sharelink('share')On the Economy...

On Foreign Policy or Why Alaska's Proximity to Russia Matters

Google Reader is one helluva feed reader, but unless you've spent a little time digging into the documentation, you probably aren't taking full advantage of what it has to offer.

Today, I'm going to show you the ins and outs of Google's powerful newsreader, with an emphasis on Reader's powerful and time-saving keyboard shortcuts. To round things off, I'll finish up with some of my favorite Google Reader-related tweaks and downloads to get you up to speed with the best newsreader on the planet.

Google Reader and its wonderful keyboard shortcuts

First off, since I'm such a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, I want to start off highlighting the incredible shortcuts baked into Google Reader

Google Reader's Quicksilver-like keyboard shortcut interface may look familiar to anyone who's used the Gmail Macros Greasemonkey script I described in my Gmail Master post. It should, since the Gmail Macros script was written by Google Reader frontend tech lead Mihai Parparita.

To get started, let's suss out some of the shortcuts I used in the video above:

Baked-in shortcuts: Google Reader integrates shortcuts to the hard-coded locations (like Home, All Items, and Starred Items) to simple, hard-coded shortcuts. So you can hit g + a (Go + All Items) to jump to all of your items. Likewise, g + h goes Home and g + s goes to your Starred Items.

Navigating subscriptions: That's all well and good, but where Google Reader's keyboard shortcuts for navigation really shine is in regards to the customizations you make to your feeds. For example, you can navigate to any feed by title by typing g + u + Feed Title (Go to Subscription). For example, g + u + Lifehacker will take you to your Lifehacker feed (assuming you've subscribed to it).

When you hit g + u, you'll see a pop-up that shows you a list of all of your current subscriptions. As you begin typing, the list will begin filtering out matches and the top match will be selected by default. You can navigate matches with the arrow keys, or continue typing until only one match remains.

Navigating Labels/Tags: If you organize your feeds by labels and tags (Google Reader isn't sure what it wants to call them - sometimes it's label, sometimes it's tag), Google Reader's got you covered there, too. To navigate by label/tag, you can either type g + t + tag-name (Go to the tag called tag-name), or g + l + label-name (Go to the label called label-name). I don't want to confuse anyone - labels and tags are the same thing in Google Reader, so either method will work. From here on out, I'm going to refer to them as labels, since that's what I've gotten used to with Gmail.

Labeling feeds and posts: Whenever you subscribe to a new feed, you have the option to file it into a 'folder'. Basically, adding a feed to a folder is no different than if you were to set up a filter that labels every post from a feed with the same label. Since Google Reader does not have filtering, it works with folders. So if you were to set up a label/folder called productivity, then add Lifehacker to the productivity folder, every post from Lifehacker would automatically be labeled 'productivity'.

However, you can also label feed items individually. When you're reading an item that you want to tag individually, just hit l + label or t + tag (whichever you prefer). You can add more than one label by separating each label with a comma, and you can create new labels on-the-fly or use one of your pre-existing labels, which will show up in an auto-suggest drop-down.

Navigating feed items: Google Reader lets you navigate from item to item in a number of ways. If you use the keyboard shortcuts available in Gmail, a lot of these shortcuts will be very familiar to you. You can:

* Move from item to item with j (down) and k (up).
* Move from item to item (without opening) with n (next) and p (previous). If you're viewing your feeds in   Expanded view, j/k and n/p both do the same thing.
* If you're navigating List view with n and p, pressing Enter or o will Open/close the currently selected item. (Incidentally, you can move between Expanded and List view with 1 or 2, respectively.)
* Star the current item (or remove an already starred item) by pressing s.
* View the current item at its originating web site in a new tab/window with v.
* Mark an item as read with m.
* Go fullscreen by pressing u. This toggles the sidebar, maximizing your reading space.

A few more choice shortcuts: The navigation shortcuts above are sort of the cream of the crop - however, Google Reader comes with several more built-in shortcuts that you might want to familiarize yourself with.

The other great part about Google Reader, aside from its inherent good looks and charm, is that its popularity means that there are a handful of really great Google Reader add-ons, both Google- and user-created. My favorites are:

# The Google Reader Notifiers: Google has yet to release an official notifier for Reader, but luckily Reader lovers have rolled their own versions. You can get Google Reader Notifier for Windows, Mac , and Firefox.
# Using Google Co-op and this Greasemonkey script, you can create a custom search of your Google Reader feeds.
# Speaking of Greasemonkey, the Smart Google Reader subscribe button (also by Mihai Parparita) gives you a simple way to subscribe to a site's newsfeed while also letting you know if you've already subscribed to that site. If you subscribe to a lot of feeds (like we do at Lifehacker), this kind of thing can come in very handy.
# Integrate Google Reader with Gmail - again with a Greasemonkey script (once again, by Mihai Parparita).

Let's hear your favorite Google Reader features and tweaks in the comments.

Note: Adam Pash is a senior editor for Lifehacker who appreciates applications that pay special attention to the keyboard. His special feature Hack Attack appears every Tuesday on Lifehacker

Here's the birth of the idea: I was scanning my panoramic photos of Ecuador and the Galapagos while checking Google Reader (my newest bad--or good?--habit).  Having only recently discovered Google Reader, I'd been gathering RSS feeds as if they were free Milk Duds and decided to begin a folder for photography.  As the current scan finished, I put two-and-two together and searched for "panoramic photo blog."  Nothing of any real fascination came up.  That's when I realized that the world (or at least the blogosphere) was missing out on halfway-decent, kind-of-okay panoramic photography.  More importantly, I decided it was up to me and my cheap-o Horizon Kompakt to fill that void.

Ready?  Let's go!

My favorite library related feed is LISnews.  I've read some fun stories there related to books, libraries and technology.  I've also found out about some great tools that are available.  I'm still looking for some good feeds that review children's and YA books.  I also like the New York Times Book Review feed and the Treehugger environmental news feed.

Você sabia que pode ler tudo que tem nos seus sites prediletos sem sair da sua página inicial?

Essa é a premissa dos tão famosos RSS ou Feeds. RSS significa "Really Simple Syndication”, ou seja, uma junção que vai deixar as coisas realmente muito simples. Ele simplesmente faz com que você possa cadastrar seus sites e blogs prediletos em um só leitor, algo como o que acontece com seus emails quando se usa o Outlook. Para ler esses feeds precisamos usar os "readers" (leitores), que são fornecidos por vários sites como o Google Reader ou até alguns navegadores como o Firefox que oferecem o serviço (apesar de eu não achar muito funcional).

Legal, estava tudo junto em um só site, mas pode ficar melhor...

Então apresento o Igoogle (não, eu não trabalho no Google, mais hoje resolvi falar das ferramentas dele), essa outra ferramenta vai personalizar a sua página inicial do Google, aonde você poderá adicionar desde Youtube, Gmail, Maps e inclusive o seu Google Reader. Então agora você entra em um site só, personalizado por você aonde tem apenas as coisas que você quer ver.

Esse papo de ver apenas o que você quizer me lembra um texto exposto pelo professor Eric Messa da FAAP. O texto de Lúcia Santaella falava sobre os tipos de leitores e entre eles estava o Leitor Imersivo, que é o leito da era digital. Esse leitor vai ler apenas as coisas que ele quiser, se o clique do seu "mouse" não for ativo simplesmente ele não vai ler nada! Então agora as coisas melhoraram um pouco, pelo menos podemos escolher um pouco do que queremos ver ao invés de estarmos sendo bombardeados de informação por todos os lados sem nenhum filtro, sendo esse o leitor movente. Claro que ninguém saiu do mundo real, mais agora o mundo virtual se torna cada vez mais próximo a todos e isso simplifica as coisas.

Gostei, gostei mesmo...

Encontrei um vídeo que explica perfeitamente tudo isso que eu quis dizer...

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