As I’ve mentioned before, I do nearly all of my blog reading through Google Reader. One neat feature it has is the ability to “share” articles that one finds interesting out to the world. I’ve been doing that for a while. At first, it was just to send articles over to Joelle for reading, but recently, I have also had them posted into my Facebook profile, through the Feedheads application.
I realized I should share these through http://www.averbuch.net as well, in case any one wants to follow along on what I find interesting as I surf the blog world…
It is now up at http://averbuch.net/interesting-reading/, and will automatically be kept up to date as I add things (which I do more frequently than blogging itself).
RSS feed also available, by the way, of shared articles.
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Ever since I switched to Google Reader for my blog reading, it has been keeping track of my blog reading habits. Taking a break from working on review-writing for a few minutes, I took a quick gander at it at to see what I’ve been reading most and where I stand. (and yes, I read a lot of blogs)
To be clear how it tracks, there are a few concepts:
- Subscriptions - how many RSS feeds it’s tracking
- Posts - # of posts the blogger/feed serves up, regardless of whether or not I’ve drilled into to actually read the article (often I just scan the title and discard)
- Items read - how many posts/articles I actually look at the article for
- Shared items - items I share as interesting to me; you can always find the list at: https://www.google.com/reader/shared/02645973665706385664 (rss feed available as well)
- Starred items - items I star for myself so I can go back and look at later; not shared publicly. I tend to only do this if I do any reading on my cell-phone (i.e. on the bus)
My overall view stats for the past 30 days are:
From your 494 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4,244 items, starred 2 items, shared 20 items, and emailed 0 items.
Items read by day for the past 30 days:
Top 10 feeds that get me to read articles - many of these are because they post so many articles, so they bubble to the top (this is sorted by # read, not by % read)
Subscription # Read % Read Slog 206 20% Chowhound’s Latest - Pacific Northwest 189 17% Valleywag 188 25% CNN Political Ticker 166 21% Freep.com - RSS - Sports 159 12% Fatwallet.com Finance 134 22% Slashdot 118 20% ProFootballTalk.com » Rumor Mill 107 24% Lifehacker 107 23% TMobile Howard Forums 76 27%
I probably will try to post about this every few months - it provides a nice view of what I am interested in over time, so I’d like it posted for my own archival purposes, if nothing else. Plus, if anybody else finds an interesting blog because of it, good for them!
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This post is more for the geeks out there - if you have any favorite WordPress plugins (or a site you trust that reviews them), please let me know… I’d love the advice!
(also using this post to test Windows Live Writer interaction with WordPress)
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<This post is cross-posted between my old blog at Windows Live Spaces, and my new one, at Averbuch.net>
With my transition to Averbuch.net, a few key settings will need to be updated on your end, depending on how you follow my postings.
- If you just visit the web site: Change your bookmarks to point to http://averbuch.net
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If you follow the RSS feed: Change (or add) http://averbuch.net/feed/ to your RSS reader
- If you like receiving email when I post, click here to signup.
- If you read my postings on Facebook, I already updated the link, so you have nothing to change here.
Please contact me if you have any questions about changing over or something doesn’t work for you.
NOTE: I will no longer be posting at http://averbuch.spaces.live.com again; all new postings will go to http://averbuch.net only.
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<This post is cross-posted between my old blog at Windows Live Spaces, and my new one, at Averbuch.net>
I’ve been thinking about moving off of Spaces for a while, for a couple of reasons:
- More flexibility in hosting (i.e. stats tracking, plugins, etc…)
- A lot more theme choices
- I wanted to host fully on my domain name, http://averbuch.net, rather than just having it as a redirect.
- Microsoft locks down a bunch of functionality in the name of security, but this significantly impacts my ability to explore and play with various technologies.
- I wanted a server to do some exploration with Ruby on Rails.
During the President’s Day holiday yesterday, I spent time exploring various hosting options, and ended up setting up a plan at http://hostingrails.com, which had the price I was looking for (including coupons), along with providing Ruby access, WordPress, ssh/shell access, and a bunch of other exploratory needs.
I’ve got the new site up, so I am going to switch everything over there; you’ll just need to switch over once, but don’t be surprised if I change the look and feel a bit over time as I explore various options and plugins.
My next post will describe how to get setup on the new server.
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I just realized you can automatically import blog postings onto Facebook notes - so if you are on Facebook, all of these postings will be cross-posted on there, under the “Notes” category, as they are posted. Of course, they bulk-imported the first bunch once I got setup.
By the way, if you are on Facebook, and are not marked as my friend, feel free to add me; if I know you, I’ll accept. If I don’t, I’ll ignore…. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=694272115
Steps to do this if you have a blog and are on Facebook - posting since it took me a while to figure this out:
- Log in (duh!)
- On the upper-left side, under applications, click more
- Click “Notes”
- On the right side, under “Notes Settings”, click “Edit Import Settings”
- Type in the RSS or ATOM feed of your blog, and check the “this is my blog” checkbox.
- Click OK.
- Confirm the preview matches your feed
- You are good to go!
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About time my brother is blogging. Although, it does make me realize that somewhere along the way, he became a much better writer than I did!
