Viewing Feeds with Google Reader

Video Transcript

"So, now that you have subscribe to some feeds I'm going to show you how you can view those and the different ways you can do those. So, when you're on your home page this is what you see. It basically gives you the top three stories of all you subscriptions. So you can see the top three of NYTimes, Expert Village Videos. I can't actually click on them yet, I will have to actually go in view to see them. So, I'm going to go to my NYTimes home page I can either click right here or click on it over here in all my subscriptions. So, when I click on it this is the page I see. I've actually been reading this so you can see the difference. You see the top story is like a light purple color and the bottom is blue. The top one has been red and bottom one hasn't. How it works is reader counts a story as read after you click on it and moved on. So, once you've read them all there is no new stories and then you wait for the newest stories to come in and that's how you know that there's new stories to read. So, right now you see there's four left but, this one I haven't read it yet. So, I click on it and went up to the top and now you see its three left cause it?s been counted as read. You can see that there is just a little about the story right here. To view the whole story you will have to click on the link right here which takes me to the NYTimes. You'll find the different blogs and sights are different and some of them might put most of their story in this little description. But, some of them might just have a line or two or some of them might even just have a title. So, that's some of the ways that you view your feed in Google Reader. We'll quickly, talk about going from story to story, this is a real great key board shortcut you probably want to keep in mind. If I hit the J key I go down to the next story and down to the next story. So, you'll be hitting the J key a lot if you decide to use it as a keyboard short cut. It's very useful. If I want to go back up I can hit the K, just like that. So, I just read the last new story on the NYTimes. Now, you can see it's actually gone, it's no longer bold and has no number here. As soon as they add a new story it will go bold again and the number one will appear. And, that?s kind of how these numbers work over here. Some of the other view options; standard view and list view. This is what a list view looks like. All it does is give you pretty much the title and just the start of the description. So if you kind of like just want to like gloss over it and pick stuff out you can do it like that. I personally like the expanded view and that's what the default view is. One more thing is if you have a story that you want to save for later you can star it. This means it will show up in your star items sections. When I click on that you can see that's it still in here. If you just want to save a story and you know you may want to look at later go ahead and star it or you don't have to use it. Then the one last way that you can view your story is go to all items. This just shows you the newest story and just goes through all of them. So, the newest stories at NYTimes I'm going to hit the J key to go forward and the next newest one is from Expert Village. Here is some more from Expert Village, NYTimes and you just keep going and going to you get to a different feeds. There's some more NYTimes. Basically, this all items view puts the newest story at the top and you can just go through all your feeds. But, the way to look at just a particular feed is to again, just click over here and then you can look at it. So, those are some your view options when your looking at your feeds."