I think it was a smart thing to make this cleanup another "thing", or else I would have never gotten back here and seen just what it can do. My only complaint is that the subscription area in the left column is scrunched down at the bottom and I am not sure what the rest of the stuff above it is used for! I'd rather have my subscriptions all up at the top.
I subscribed to a Google Alert for "Rules of Engagement", a televison show that my daughter just started working on. Much that came up was related to the war in Afghanistan, so I had to add "television" to the alert. I read through the rest of my subscriptions, and decided to unsubscribe to 2 or 3 of them. I also went into "Manage subscriptions" to create folders for the following: family, news, library/tech, and books. I find that much of Google Reader is intuitive- I have been able to figure it out without needing instructions.
I subscribed to a Delicious tag for "Journalism", as I will be working with that class this year for the first time. This tag may be too general- I may have to narrow it, we'll see. When I clicked on the orange feed widget at the bottom of the page it did not take me right to Google Reader, as the video showed. It said I was subscribed, but in order to have it show up in Google Reader, I had to cut and paste the URL. It was good to remember that that there is more than one way to do things - that is usually the case with most things! I also subscribed to NYT news headlines. I plan on taking a look at many of my email newsletters to see if I can switch them over to subscriptions in Google Reader. This seems to be the way to go! Rather than being overwhelming, it can actually help to manage too much information in one place. (on a side note, I read two book reviews that looked great, and am ordering the books for the high school library: one is called "Rewired: Understanding the igeneration and the way they learn" by Larry D. Rosen, PhD).
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