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Official Google Reader Blog: Google Reader for Beginners

Some of you are like me... You have a number of blogs you just HAVE to follow each day. So, you may make up a folder in your Bookmarks or Favorites, and you do the "daily cycle" to see what is posted. Some of you return as many as 7 times in one day! Google offers a Reader that can function in a variety of ways. Google also now offers a tutorial site on how to set up and use a Google Reader . The icon in the window with this blog address has an orange symbol which allows one to subscribe using an RSS reader. There are other feeds as well such as Feedburner. If you are someone who likes to check out several blogs each day or several times per week, please check out the Google site. It is great, informative and free! Just go here !

Visitors ask...What is the orange and white icon doing in the upper right corner of this blog's URL?

In the upper pane of my internet browser, there is a URL (or "uniform resource locator") designation box telling the browser the address to this blog. It starts with http//: (which is shorthand for "hypertext transfer protocol"). It then gives the Blogger address: tlm-md.blogspot.com . To the right of the address in the URL pane is an orange and white icon. If you click on that icon, you can "subscribe" to the "feed" from that blog . In other words, you can have the "content" go to a reader which you can screen in many ways at your choosing. In this way, somebody can cover up to a few dozen blogs each day to see what they have posted in almost "real time." News services, ESPN and so on all have these "feeds." Here is an explanation of RSS readers (the output from this blog is also in Atom besides RSS). This gives the top ten "Windows based" RSS Feed Readers available . There are many more, but th