You mentioned that Google Reader was the only reader that you use. The R.S.S. reader I've used, FeedDemon has been annoying me with frames that I don't want, and stories I've deleted coming back. I've just started using Google Reader because you mentioned, so I thought I give it a try. However, not to say I'm completely clueless, but I can't figure out how to delete a story from Google Reader when I'm done reading...

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Dave, I'm impressed! My review of Growing Your Business with Google hadn't been up for much longer than an hour before you had already commented on it -- and posted the review on your own website. (Embarrassingly before I corrected a few typos in my own article.) You have this blogging thing down to a science! Which leads me to my question: What secret weapon (or weapons) do you use to keep so up-to-date on...

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Ever since you recommended it at a conference a while back, I've been a big fan of NewsGator Online as my RSS reader. As you said, being able to catch up on my feeds from any Web browser anywhere in the world is darn convenient. However, there's a dark cloud: I have been using various "smart searches" to keep track of our company, our competitors, my wife, etc., and find that I get the same...

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I've been really getting into this whole blogging phenomenon, thanks in part to your business blog, actually, but now I want to have some of the people on my team able to keep track of what I write about without them having to learn how to work with an RSS reader. My flash of genius: is there a toolbar I can install on their browsers a la the Google toolbar that would give them a...

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