Comments on: How to read blogs [tech for non-techies 2]

By: Development policy essentials | virtual economics

Development policy essentials | virtual economics — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:19:39 +0000

[...] worry, if you haven’t already, simply set up an RSS feed to computer. Owen Barder’s blog contains details on how to do this and it’s easy to get started. I use GoogleReader because [...]

By: Worth Your Time « Planning the Day

Worth Your Time « Planning the Day — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:24:12 +0000

[...] It’s been awhile since I posted one of these round-ups, mostly because I’ve been sharing a lot on my Google Reader instead recently. Everything I share is added to my sidebar under the “Today I’m reading:” header. My comments are only available if you follow me through a reader though. If you want to add me to your reader, here is the feed. To learn more about how to use a reader, check out this primer from Owen Abroad. [...]

By: A grad student’s guide to the international development blogosphere « Find What Works

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:27:08 +0000

[...] will always be the same in all three. (There are also many other options for feed aggregators. Follow this link to read Owen Barder’s recent reviews of a few others.) [...]

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:09:40 +0000

@Chris: which citation system do you use? Many (e.g. Harvard, APA and many others) already have standards for blog citations.

@D. Watson: I use Feedburner to monitor subscriptions. It doesn’t seem to be totally accurate, but its margin of error is so small that it hardly makes a difference.

By: From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green » Blog Archive » Africa’s oil spill; great book titles; microfinance gabfest; global crisis 2.0; is health improving?; magnificent migrants; efficient blog-browsing and a real market failure: links I

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:28:04 +0000

[...] Barder explains how to skim blogs and other net stuff efficiently – if you don’t have Google Reader or similar already installed, read this. And did you know RSS [...]

By: D. Watson

D. Watson — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:08:48 +0000

But how do you as a blog author get information on who, or at least how many people, are subscribed to your blog?

By: Ju_B

Ju_B — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:35:37 +0000

Thanks for this informative post!

By: David Hercot

David Hercot — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:13:26 +0000

Thanks Owen. I do also use rss feed to collect stuff for our newsletter which in turn is also available as an rss feed. We focus on global healt hissues affecting national health systems in low income countries so you might be interested to add this link to your already very long list of blogs. http://www.itg.be/ihp Regards

By: Lorraine M. Thompson

Lorraine M. Thompson — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:04:36 +0000

Thank you very much for this very helpful post.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:43:16 +0000

Wanted to add another voice in thanks for this helpful post, and the blog in general. Tremendous resource. Now, we just need to figure out how to make citations to blog posts, where I for one get nearly all my technical info these days, for academic/policy publications…

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Good post. I am absolutely addicted to Google Reader, and use my google account for everything. Haven’t looked back since I discovered RSS

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:20:06 +0000

Another way to exchange RSS feeds (at least, if both sender and receiver use Google Reader) is by using "bundles". They have a couple of advantages over .opml files, which you can read about on the Google Reader Blog.

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:17:33 +0000

How to import an OPML file into Outlook 2007:
1.On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2.Select Import RSS Feeds from an OPML file.
3.Click Next.
4.Click Browse to specify where the file to be imported is located, and then click Open.
5.Click Next.
6.Select the Feed name check box for each subscription that you want to import.
7.Click Next.
The .opml file is imported to Office Outlook 2007.