If you (try to) read more than a half dozen websites every day you should really think about using a "newsreader." A newsreader is a single computer application or a web page that automatically collects the content of your favorite web pages (like Where's Geoff) and presents it to you in a single place. It strips out much of the formatting unique to each web page (like the advertising!) and just gives you the text, pictures and sounds. As one writer put it, "It's like an Inbox for the Web." What's more, most newsreaders are free! Really!
There is some magic that websites have to do to allow reading via newsreaders, but most mainstream sites with frequent updates you'd care to read support newsreaders.
My favorite newsreader, by far, is Google Reader. The screenshot is from my page. You can see all the sites I want to follow on the left, and the articles from the sites are in the wide column on the right. Reading the stuff is as simple as scrolling.
Here's a nifty intro to Google Reader. The interface has changed since the intro was created, but the principles are the same.
Ready to start? Click here!
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