I've been noticing over time that I have a lot of subscribers to my content on Friendfeed. That's cool, but now that I look at the service, there's a lot it can aggregate, including the items I mark as shared in Google Reader, my RSS reader of choice. What I can't figure out is how to tie the two together!...

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I've been using a separate application to keep track of all my RSS channels on my Apple iMac, but now that I just downloaded the shiny new Safari 4 browser from Apple, I'd like to switch over to using its built-in RSS reader. Problem is, I can see how to read an RSS feed, but I can't see much else of how to work with RSS within the browser....

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In preparation for a trip early next year, I want to start reading up on the news and contemporary events in South Africa. Now, is there some general approach to doing this with online tools?...

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Okay, I'm dabbling with Google Reader and am finding it pretty cool except for one big issue: every time I start up the program I have to read their "helpful hints" and am forced to click on "All Items" to see my news. Surely there's a solution?...

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I've been using NewsGator Online to read my RSS feeds for years, but with the beta of their new "Ajax" interface, I think it's time to move to something else: Google Reader. Can you step me through exporting my RSS subscription list (in OPML, I guess) and importing it into Google Reader?...

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With all the new technology coming fast and furious - RSS, video blogging, mobile advertising - is it wise for me to jump into any of these technologies for my affiliate site or should I wait for wide adoption of a strong few? In other words, do I need all that tech on my site?...

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I'm a big fan of the book reviews that Thomas Duff writes on Amazon.com and was suddenly struck with the question: can I actually get his reviews mailed to me so I can keep up on what he's recommending? For that matter, there are a number of other reviews I've found that have very similar tastes to my own, so I'd really like to have some way to keep track of what they're recommending too....

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I'm pulling out my hair! I want to include images in my blog entries and have those images show up in the RSS feed too, but either I end up with no image showing up at all, or I end up with the text abutting the image, which looks terrible. What's the best practice with this, Dave?...

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I live for music and have a ton of different musicians and bands that I want to keep track of. I know I can go to somewhere like Google News + Technorati and create dozens of searches, but, man, it's the 21st century, surely there's an easier way?...

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I have a pretty long list of sites that I ping but only recently realized that I have no way of pinging the new Google Blogsearch service when I have a new entry on my MT blog! Is there a way to do this that I just haven't bumped into?...

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Should I adjust the blog I write for my company so it appears correctly when accessed via RSS readers? Is there a standard format in which the layout and content is delivered to RSS readers that I can use to ensure that my blog appears the way I want?...

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