Postings delivered to you…

We discussed using a feed or blog reader (like a Google Reader) as the quickest and easiest way to read a blog postings. One of the benefits of using a feed reader (rather than going to the blog site itself–analogous to you going to a store to buy a newspaper) is that feed reader allows you to subscribe (just like a newspaper) to the blog site postings and have the postings delivered to you (again, just like a newspaper) via the blog reader.

One of the most popular blog reader is the Google Reader. It’s easy to use, feature-rich and free. To received feeds (postings, comments, etc.) from this blog site and into your Google reader, simply click on the “Google Reader” icon on the right-hand side of the this blog site’s page and that’s it. You’ve just subscribed.

There are other feed readers to choose from as you can see. I haven’t used other feed readers yet so I don’t know what the major differences are.