So, Google continues its march toward world domination simply by providing products I think are really cool. Today’s installment is the Google Reader. It is a news reader with some nifty features. I really enjoy my current news reader that plugs into Firefox, but the Google Reader has a feature that will probably have me using it more. It allows me to mark stories as “shared” and then gives me a piece of code I was able to plug into my side bar that provides links to the stories I shared. So, lots of times, I think a story is interesting but don’t have the time or inclination offer much in the way of commentary. Sometimes I create a “go look here” post, and sometimes I just keep it to myself. Using the Google reader, I can just click share and it’ll show up in my “news of interest” widget on the sidebar. I’ll try it out for a while and see how it works.
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Takign a cue from Doug Masson, I integrated Google Reader’s share option with the website to create a news of interest bar on the left sidebar.
So for links I see in RSS that don’t warrant a post or an aside link I can click “share…
Doug,
Nice addition. I vote “yes”.
I’ve been loving Google Reader since I recently switched to it recently. I’d love to grab a copy of that widget of yours and see if I can’t work it into my site as well. I do the same thing alot, where I see stories of interest but don’t have the time to really blog them.
From your reader, go to Settings -> Tags -> Add a clip to your site. It will generate the html for you. It was easy enough to paste into sidebar.php on my WordPress set up, but I don’t recall what blogging platform you use.
oh cool, I figured you wrote some special plugin. Didn’t realize it was going to be THAT easy. Cool, I’ll definitely try it out soon. Now to just clear out some sidebar room.