Journal: News & Comment

Google gives everyone a free feed reader

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Here’s how:

1. Go to Google.com (.ca doesn’t have the required links yet) and choose the Personalized Home (google.com/ig) link (google.ca/ig will work, by the way).
2. Click Add Content in the upper left.
3. Click Create a Section at the bottom of the sidebar that appears.
4. Put an RSS feed URL into the text box and click Go.
5. You can move the resulting feed news box around in the home page.
6. Click Edit above the feed items to select how many you want in the list.

Wouldn’t work well for many feeds, but certainly it’s verrrry interesting.

UPDATE: You need Gmail or a free Google account, and to be signed in, for this to work.

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