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Are you using a RSS reader yet (like Google Reader)?
Or are you still reading blogs by “clicking” your bookmarks in your browser bar?
Perhaps you print them out and read them over lunch.
And, perhaps the most important question… Are you subscribed here at ChurchCrunch and the other 8BIT Network sites?
Yes – Google Reader
Yes – Subscribed
dude, because you’re awesome.
Can I be awesome too?
I’m in between – I have my Google Reader list on my homepage – and still like to click on the titles of interest and go to the website. The Reader app is too plain.
Google Reader – of course!
Subscribed – bingo!
Does it count if I subscribe to blogs in greader AND print them out from there to read over lunch?
haha
I’m a Bloglines subscriber to Church Crunch! Is Google better?
Stay blessed…john
See, I’m still in the stone age. I click the bookmark (or even worse – type the URL myself). I tried Google Reader for about a day and I hated it. I found it formless and ugly; I enjoy seeing the design of the blogs I read, I enjoy looking at them. That’s all part of the experience for me. I don’t want to spend twenty minutes staring at the same ugly page as the text goes whizzing by.
I haven’t really tried to find a reader that I like because I don’t think I need one. Maybe I just haven’t realized how much simpler they make everything.
The “ugliness” of Google Reader and most other readers held me back for a LONG time. Then I found Netvibes. I can have all my blogs divided into categories by tabs. It’s all much more visually pleasing. I also have my Twitter, Facebook and Hotmail on there. It’s really become my home base online.
And for me, if it doesn’t look nice, I just won’t use it.
I agree. I think the reader is more boring than a microsoft word document. I usually click to see the real deal.
I used to be one of those people who had a couple of blogs he followed and would go daily to their personal sites. Usually I ended up disappointed because they didn’t update on a regular basis.
Then I found this great thing called Google Reader, now with over 200 blogs that I follow it is weaved into my life like cross stitch. In fact, I tweeted out someone that started putting a “teaser” opener to their blog so that you would have to go to their site, what the crap! I only want to go to your site if I am going to comment on something, otherwise I am more likely to simply skim and skip.
Now I wonder what my world was like before Google Reader…
I agree. Being forced to go to a site to read their blog because of that “teaser” opener has adverse effects.
Are you reading this, Kyle Reed?!?!?!
puaha. pwned.
John, funny comic & good reminder. I don’t know how anyone who reads blogs can live without an RSS reader. That’s why I wrote this a few years ago…
Not Using an RSS Reader? You Ignorant Time-Waster!
http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/06/20/not-using-an-rss-reader-you-ignorant-time-waster/
Proud to rank #1 in Google for “ignorant time waster”
huh, what is RSS?
hey wait a second – you have 500 fans – awesome
what is a blog?
ha ha ha.
I spend more time than I’d like to admit with my Google Reader, and yes, I’m subscribed to all of the 8bit sites.
me too, but I think there are a lot of sites I scan so fast that I should maybe unsubscribe. I wonder how many of us are in that position.
I use GooReader and I’m subscribed to all the 8Bit blogs in there. But I rarely actually go to GooReader. I’ve got a “Fav Blogs” folder in my bookmarks that I go though. I know I should use GooReader but I really like the user experience of visiting the blog… and when it’s time to comment… I have to go to the blog anyways.
I DO NOT, however, print much of anything. I’m one of the few in the office who emails PDFs around all the time.
I’m “green”!
rocking the Google Reader (but I still read certain blogs in my browser so I cans comments)
I am subscribed to the 8bit feed.
Word.
I use Greader and comment, what do you mean?
Yes and YES…
Because i am awesome.
Yup, used a bunch of them, but have settled on google reader. Currently subscribed.
Yeah… I am using Google Reader and your feed is on it.
Google Reader after years of them piling up in my inbox (I feel shameful even admitting that).
Oh, and yes – subscribed to all of the 8Bit family of feeds
“Perhaps you print them out and read them over lunch.” Yeah and maybe you still make calls on a bag phone.
While RSS is great to centralize blogs to one interface, it does not centralize the conversation – in fact Buzz, FaceBook, Readers, etc shatter the conversation. That’s my only problem with RSS in general.
I made the 8Bit Google Reader Bundle a little ways back. Did it just to see if I could get in on all the bundle-making fun.
Also, if you hate the default look of Google Reader, maybe try Helvetireader. Cuts out a lot of the Googleish undesign, and makes you feel at least 8 times more 1337. It was so good I dumped NetNewsWire (after being a complete stooge for it since 2004).
Yeah, I used 1337sp43k. I’m old. Now get off my lawn!
awesome, subscribed to that
sweet!
Using google reader and subscribed to church crunch. Google reader is kinda ugly but its nice to have the convenience of being able to access my feeds easily from whatever internet enabled gadget I’m on.
Google reader for me – used to use a standalone but haven’t looked back since I found it. And on my iphone I use NewsRack to link to my google reader account for when I’m stuck in a dentist office or similar for a bit.
Of course subscribed – and do you sub to mine
LOL
I am using Google Reader. I have subscribed to the 8Bit blog network also…