I have a confession to make to you.
I love Google Reader and all of the articles that come across my feed. I would love to say that I know how to use the web app well, but that would be a lie. In fact, just recently, I did a little spring cleaning of all of the RSS articles that I starred to “read later.”
After 30 minutes and 768 unstarred posts, I have done my Spring cleaning.
Give your Google Reader a haircut with the 3 Column Reader!
The 3 Column Reader will transform your Google Reader in your Safari or Google Chrome browser into something very easy on the eyes.
Check it out:
Recently I have only been hearing good things about Fresh Feed (available from the Mac app store).
I just recently jumped on the RSS bandwagon. I tried Google Reader and Apple Mail but both left me unimpressed with how the content looked in each respective app. Right about now you’re thinking that “how the content looks” is probably not the most important feature for most people, but I’m a designer so you’ll get no apologies from me. In fact, maybe you ought to up your standards a little. Ever think of that?
Thankfully, I came across NetNewsWire and immediately fell in love with the blog content aesthetics and ease of use right out of the box. Then I discovered another huge plus; it has the ability to visually style the content with multiple themes!
Bonus.
Let’s take a look-see.
I found this Google-generated advertisement in an RSS Feed this morning.
I clicked it.
And then this is what I saw:
Just for those that are interested (or lazy), you can subscribe to all the 8BIT Network RSS Feeds with this master RSS Feed via Feedburner:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/All-Feeds-8BIT-Network
Voila. Hurray. Have fun.
This master feed includes all the content from the following properties:
We’ve been doing some growing…!
It was a pleasant surprise to see that we’ve broken over 1,000 RSS Subscribers (via Feedburner) on all the network sites in less than 2 weeks time!
w00t.
We hope that you’ve enjoyed the content so far and that you’ve found it useful and valuable. More to come!
If you haven’t had an opportunity to subscribe (or Follow on Twitter!) to the 8BIT Network Sites, here’s your chance!
Wow. I nearly forgot about this (thanks for nobody reminding me…) community contest for the 3,000th RSS subscriber!
Sheesh.
So, congrats Kyle Reed! Send me your info and we’ll get you the hookup.
Ok. So, the next big giveaway is for the 20,000th comment. Stay tuned.
I love giving away stuff.
Since we’re going to be launching a new network (The 8BIT Network) which is going to include a number of blogs and online properties we’ve been looking at ways to combine RSS Feeds into one single feed.
The biggest need is so we can begin populating a lot of our properties with just one feed instead of several. This makes perfect sense as well for things like Facebook Fan Pages.
I’ve already written about how I’ve used Yahoo Pipes to do this here so that’s one of them. I’ve included 2 more which have worked well too…
This is a Guest Post by Vin Thomas.
In my humble opinion, forums are lame.
Commenting is where it’s at. But traditional formatting for comments doesn’t work very well. That’s where threaded comments come in. They give you some of the features of forum style posting, but none of the lameness (yes, that’s a word).
Have you noticed that fewer and fewer blogs utilize single level commenting systems? I for one am more than happy to see them go. The ability to reply to individual comments without having to use some kind of janky workaround is great. A perfect example of comments done right would be right here on ChurchCrunch.com.
WordPress recently released threaded comments directly within their app, but there are some other great commenting systems out there that integrate really well with almost any platform. Here are my two favorites: Continue Reading…
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