A Quick Rant to my friend Google Reader

September 25, 2009 at 2:14 pm 4 comments

Dear Google Reader,

I really like you a lot. You’re like my own personal New York Times. Every day I come into work and I open you up and skim through your “pages”. I like that I can share with my friends and what not (although I’m not going to lie…I think they get sick of me sharing about the cloud). But you know, sometimes I want to share things I’ve read not in Google Reader. Like today I saw this in a tweet:

http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113/

It looks like a pretty cool book. I thought some of my followers on Google Reader might like to know about it. So I went and asked The Google to see if there was a way for me to tweet things to Google Reader. Alas there was not.

Google Reader this made me sad. I mean there is twittercal which is super awesome because I can tweet things to my Google Calendar. So why can’t there be twittergooglereader (or something with a better name). I mean don’t you know that the more social media like you become the more I want your functionality to expand and interact with other social media outlets?

Sigh. I still love you though.

Rosalyn

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Written by Mihai Parparita on September 25, 2009. Reply

Hi Rosalyn,

Have you tried our “Note in Reader” bookmarklet? You can find at the top right of the “Your stuff” page (http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/self). Once you drag it to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar, when you’re on a webpage that you want to share in Reader, you just press it.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer
Written by Jonathan Rochkind on September 25, 2009. Reply

I don’t use Google Reader, but it reads RSS/Atom feeds, right?

I don’t actually use Twitter much either, but I bet there’s a way to make an RSS feed from your twitter. If you can figure out how to make an RSS feed from your twitter posts which include a certain tag, subscribe to it in Google Reader, and you’re done!

RSS/Atom feeds are pretty awesome for building ‘mash ups’, such a simple thing, so powerful. (I sometimes take RSS feeds from Craigslist searches for something I’m interested in, feed it to an RSS-to-email service, now I’ve got email alerts from craigslist even though craigslist doens’t support that directly. Neat!)

I think I just figured it out for you. This feed will include any posts from rosy1280 (that’s you, right?) that include the hashtag #publish. So any tweet you send including #publish will be in this feed. Subscribe to it in Reader, done!

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+%23publish+from%3Arosy1280
- Written by Rosalyn Metz on September 28, 2009. Reply
  
  awesome jonathan! thanks for that…my brain isn’t interested these days in building. only in accomplishing to do lists.
Written by Rosalyn Metz on September 28, 2009. Reply

@Mihai Parparita

this is going to sound dumb but i hate bookmarks. they take up real estate in my browser window and they require me to be using a specific computer to work. i’m too cloudy to deal with something that requires a specific machine.

i like jonathan’s option. i’m testing it out now to see how it works. it might be a good hack for others though. perhaps it might be useful in developing other services for google reader.

all in all i think you guys are doing an awesome job. i would lament about such things if i didn’t love the service.

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