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.

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

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