Note: There's no new content here, only a question: How do you follow blogs?
Do you read them as separate websites, one by one?
Do you follow blogs using a reader such as Google Reader?
Do you get your blogs on the go with a smartphone?
I am somewhat curious as to how you read my blog. I have enabled the mobile template for Blogger, and tested it using an Android-based smartphone. It seems to be working fine, so if you have one of those gadgets, you might want to give it a whirl.
I tend to follow blogs using Google Reader, as it aggregates all of my reading choices in one spot, making it very convenient to follow a larger number of blogs. On the other hand, I do miss out on some formats of items in blogs that don't translate well to the Google Reader format. Then I either have to choose to visit the blog directly to get the content as intended by the writer, or do without the specially formatted material and hope I didn't miss something important.
Before Google Reader, I visited each blog I wanted to read directly. This has the benefit of getting the material as designed and intended by the writer, but has the drawback of needing to manually visit each blog separately. It takes longer. It's not as convenient.
Please take a minute and leave a comment letting me know how you read my blog. I'm wondering if I need to pay more attention to mobile formatting, or if I should be more alert to formatting that doesn't work with Google Reader and other similar aggregators.
Good question
ReplyDeleteI use Google Reader - as you know I use Google Reader to create many of the lists and "roll ups" at GeneaBloggers. So this means I have over 1800 blogs in my reader (and I am panicked since the max is 2000!) and I read over 500 blog posts a day.
I also make it a point to click on each listing in my Google Reader because I know that some sites do track their RSS statistics.
In addition, my personal Google Reader is used to read the many tech blogs I follow. Plus I have my Google Alerts set up as RSS feeds so they appear in Google Reader instead of email.
Let's just say that Google Reader is probably my post used web app each day!
I read blogs primarily on my android phone using Google Reader. In fact, I am writing this comment on my phone. I am all for making the blog posts mobile friendly. I do my best on my posts in that respect.
ReplyDeleteThomas, I have no idea how you keep up with so many blogs! I've got a couple dozen, plus I read my webcomics and such via Google Reader as well, and that adds up to a few hundred hits per day. Kudos to you for keeping that all going! Google Reader is always open in my browser, too.
ReplyDeleteI use Google Reader.
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