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Organize Writing Resources Using Google Reader

  By John Rea-Hedrick | March 11, 2010 - 1:15 pm | Writing
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This week’s YA Highway Wednesday Road Trip is about Favorite Helpful Sites for writers.  I’ve decided to play along this week and share a tip I picked up from my day job where part of my time is spent supporting and configuring information search tools.  Three simple words . . .

USE. GOOGLE. READER.

I know many writers already use Google Reader as the portal for their many blog subscriptions.  It’s a great way for the information you want to come to you (Yay RSS!) so you don’t have to go looking for it.  (Of course this works for anyone, not just writers.)

But did you know you can use Google Reader as your own personalized search engine? (more…)

A quick RSS apology

  By John Rea-Hedrick | October 5, 2009 - 9:05 am | Randomness
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For anyone currently following my blog (although it’s looking pretty lonely out there), a quick apology for the recent BlogEngine.net posts which appeared AFTER my happy post about switching to WordPress.  No, I have not switched blogware again.

After switching to a UNIX platform so I could make the move to WordPress, I realized I didn’t have draft copies of my initial BlogEngine posts.  For consistency, and since they were the only two posts left behind, I decided to repost them.  Thanks to Google search cache I not only found the text, but the publication date/time. (Yay!)

So This morning when I checked Google Reader (yes, I subscribe to my own blog posts as any narcissistic, new blogger in the honeymoon of ‘Look at me! I’m blogging!’, may) I saw these two posts from September appear from yesterday. {sigh}

Lesson learned, RSS is from real-time updates.  It doesn’t care if you said something was older than it is by back dating it.  Rookie mistake.

Next time I’ll put a parenthetical (reposted from . . . ) as the first line.

Okay, back to my day job!