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If you use an RSS reader to subscribe to and read blogs (and you should) then you know what a great tool it can be to keep you up to date, well-read and inspired.

I’ve used the free Google Reader tool for a long time and love it’s simplicity. However, a reader of this blog (Rob Kirby) pointed out a very cool tool called Feedly that takes my subscriptions and creates a much better looking magazine like interface. To me better looking translates into more useful when it comes to scanning a hundred blogs or so. Feedly immediately brought all of my feeds and organization folders over from Google so set-up was instantaneous.

But that’s just the beginning. Feedly is a Firefox add-on that functions using my Google Reader account so all my Feedly activity is still saved to Google Reader. Adding blog subscriptions as simple as a click, but I can also pages I find, video, images, anything I want to bookmark and organize. I can share and email articles I find and the tool analyzes the content I seem to like and gently suggests where I might find more.

The two images below give you comparison views of Google Reader and Feedly (Click to enlarge)

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Posted by: John Jantsch on Jan 29, 10 | 11:11 am
Category: Blogging, Duct Tape Marketing, Social Media | Tags: , Feedly, Google Reader, RSS

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prosperitygal

John I love it when we have more options and solutions. I get it they are not all gonna be fore veryone. So I will be doing something with google reader and feedly test it and report back onb my blog what I liked and didn't like.
ducttape

Love to hear your thoughts on this
Sonja Gottschalk

netvibes.com is another nice alternative.
Cassie Rice

Thanks for posting this! This is really helpful especially because I'm such visual person - it gives me a more visual way to see my content. I've wanted something like this for a while, but just haven't looked into it. Thanks for the doing the work for me! :)
Radu Panciuc

Hey Cassie, I am also a visual person and I am using favit.com as a reader. It has 3 distinct ways to view items, lists, and you can easily send them to twitter and Facebook as it has these 2 services integrated. :)
VitaminCM

John,
I have tried Feedly and I just don't find it to be as fast and efficient as Google Reader. I'm probably not a typical reader; I have about 250 sites in my reader. GR's tagging, email, twitter, and other integration makes it my best tool for information consumption and organization.
Still for people with a smaller list, Feedly might be better. Nice article.
Chris
ducttape

I think you are right Feedly may not work for a power reader, but I still really like the presentation of the page, I just find it more pleasing, which makes reading more pleasing.
Luis Perezcano

Thanks John. Your suggestions quite often hit the spot.
Wes D.

I tried Feedly in hopes of it improving my RSS reading, but it really did not do that. I'm not sure where I saw the recommendation, but what has helped is changing the way I use Google Reader.

I now go to the All Items view, scan the subjects and Star the ones that I want to read (and being sure not to be tempted to read something right then) . I then Mark All as Read, and then select only Starred items to actually read posts. This has made feed reading much more manageable, and I no longer even bother to categorize my feeds. I highly recommend this method.
Tracey

Feedfly looks nice. I use Pageflakes and like it.
David Patterson

Hi John I am really enjoying the podcast! Thanx
Warren Whitlock

Anything that crams more meaning into my reading time is worth a try
John Incantalupo

I'm going to give this a try, John. Currently using Chrome browser, but this may be a reason to return to Firefox??? (First, I'm going to check, though, to see if it's available for Chrome!)
John Incantalupo

Just checked, and it is available for Google Chrome browser, here's the link if anybody would like to try -https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ndhinffkekpekljifjkkkkkhopnjodja

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