If you are not already a subscriber, this is the perfect time to sign up, via RSS or via email.
Now that we have created an iGoogle page, we will make it our homepage and we will also customize it fully. Let’s not forget why we embarked on this adventure in the first place. We want to be able to receive updates (feeds) from websites and blogs that we like. We could subscribe to the blogs we like via email, but as I have mentioned that would not be a good idea. Blog posts (as each article is called) however interesting they may be, are not addressed specifically to us as individuals. Think of a blog as an online magazine. If you subscribe to two or three magazines, imagine what it would be like if all those articles appeared individually in your email inbox. You would have a hundred emails a day and only a handful of them would actually be addressed to you from a family member, friend or business contact. Highly impractical, don’t you think?
By adding a widget to our iGoogle page called Google Reader, with one simple click of the mouse we can direct any blog or website to send updates to our homepage, leaving our inbox out of the equation. Pretty great, right? So, here’s the video on just how to do that. Enjoy!
In the last post of the series we are going to explore the features of Google Reader. See you then!
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