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Chris F. Masse

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How To Use Feeds

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Contents

• Site Feeds For Dummies
• The Best Feed Readers
• How To Subscribe To A Feed Via Google Reader
• How To Use Feeds
• The Midas Oracle Site Feeds
• Sharing Feed Items With Friends

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1. Site Feeds For Dummies

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A great explainer on why and how to subscribe to feeds:

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2. The Best Feed Readers

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Web-based feed readers: Google Reader, iGoogle (with the Google Reader module), BlogLines, NetVibes, PageFlakes, etc.

PC-based feed readers: browsers (MicroSoft Internet Explorer 7+, Mozilla FireFox), browser extensions (Sage with Mozilla CSS, or Wizz), cross-platform and open-source software (RSS Owl, Blog Bridge), etc. Parameter your feed reader so that it fetches the site feed once an hour, no more.

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3. How To Subscribe To A Feed Via Google Reader

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• Click on “Add subscription”;
• Paste in the box the URL of the feed you want to subscribe to;
• Click “Add”;
• Click on “Manage subscriptions” (at the bottom of your list of feeds) to put your new feed in a folder;
• Click on “Folder settings” and “Sort by oldest” (in the main view), to read your feed items starting with the oldest items;
• Advanced tips on how to use Google Reader.

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4. How To Use Feeds

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Recommendations

• I recommend that you read any blog within a Web-based feed reader and I recommend Google Reader;
• You should be able to scan-read quickly the items within your feed reader —classify them, tag them, share them, and search them;
• Read your feed items starting with the oldest items;
• Create a main folder for your most important feeds, and set it as your “start page”. Put your less important feeds in other folders;
• Tag the important items that you want to highlight and/or share;
• Share items with like-minded people who have good taste;
• Perform searches in your archived items —in all of them, by category, by tag, or by feed.

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Special Recommendation To Comment Junkies

• Do subscribe to the comment feed using a PC-based feed reader, so you can decide to fetch the comment feed as often as you wish —Web-based feed readers (like Google Reader) do fetch feeds only once an hour.

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5. The Midas Oracle Site Feeds

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For people who want to read all the Midas Oracle blog posts within their feed reader:

Site Feed - Posts Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/feed/

Subscribe to the Midas Oracle site feed via Google Reader

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For people who, additionally, want to read the comments within their feed reader:

Sub-Site Feed - Comments Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/comments/feed/

Subscribe to the Midas Oracle comment feed via Google Reader

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For people who don’t want to read all the Midas Oracle blog posts, but only the selected pieces:

Sub-Site Feed - Best Posts Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/category/all-best-posts-ever/feed/

Subscribe to the Midas Oracle selection feed via Google Reader

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For people who want to read all the Midas Oracle blog posts, but not Chris Masse’s ones:

Sub-Site Feed - Guest Authors Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/category/all-guest-authorss-posts/feed/

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For people who want to read only a small part of the Midas Oracle content, there are three other types of sub-site feeds:

Sub-Site Feed - Category

Sub-Site Feed - Tag

Sub-Site Feed - Author

Snatch any of the URLs at Categories, Tags or Posters, and add “feed/” at the end.

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6. Sharing Feed Items With Friends

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- To share feed items with me (Chris Masse) within Google Reader, go to GMail, and under “Chat” (on the left pane), click on “Add Contact”. Paste my e-mail address there (chrisfmasse +++at— gmail +dot— com). Once I receive your invite, I’ll accept it. You will then see my shared items and I’ll see yours within Google Reader.

- Advanced tips on how to share feed items with friends within Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s Starred Feed Items at Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s Shared Feed Items at Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s Subscribed Feed Items on Prediction Markets at Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s Subscribed Feed Items on Information Technology at Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s list of subscribed feeds at Google Reader: XML/OPML file

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