If you haven't taken the time to check out the Times' newest addition to online interaction, today is the day: In what's becoming a terrific daily post First Things First
A daily roundup of blog posts from our area, some right here in NW Indiana, and they've compiled a pretty good blog roll as well. Here's the challenge, have you set up your RSS reader yet? Come on today's the day to start using RSS to make keeping on on events faster and more automatic.
Go to Google Reader and set up an account (keep tab open)
(open new tab) Next go to the Northwest Indiana and Beyond Blog and copy the link in the orange box in your address bar (sometimes you can just click the orange RSS box and your browser will start asking where you are sending the code, choose google) The RSS link is here too if you want to copy if from here instead.
On your Google Reader choose "add subscription" box in left hand corner (see why it's nice to keep multiple tabs open?)
Paste the link code that you got here or on the the blog itself
Click "add"
You have now set up your first, hopefully of many, RSS feeds into your own private magazine or newspaper. Yes, there's a code on this page, and on many of the blogs and newspapers you read every day. But your reader gives you a one stop shop, one place to see the headlines to all your favorites in one place quickly. Google isn't the only one, there's a bunch of them, I just happen to use that one.
