Moonlit Minds

Dear GR users,

There are two interesting documents I let my self to recommend you here if you encounter problems:
1.Google Reader Feature Request: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ac6tFcdqBeW3ZGc5YzZrY2JfNTU1ZjZtYmZwZ24&hl=en_GB
2. Google Reader FAQ: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVG9onQVIoXjZHhjcWZ4eF82OWNqNjd3emM3&hl=en_GB

Feel free to add to those documents.

If you have problems with Comments try to first read this:http://polnor.net/minds/2009/08/commenting-in-google-reader/ and if this does not help: Clean your Contacts in Gmail – system is still new and sometimes you will have additional entries on your Contact list (which you can merge with the contact or delete). You have to also add manually name field – it does not ‘pull’ names yet.
And last but not least – not everybody enable comments or even follow back here because it can create issues for your security/privacy -> if you follow a person and enable comments this person can see your Gmail address which makes it potentially easy to:
1. Spam you,
2. ‘Crack’ your account.

With kind regards,

Hanna (aka ‘tamihania’)

PS. On a lighter note – Google Reader with Comments is a wonderful system, different from other social tools but the tool which can empower your research, interesting discussions, discovery and collaboration with other people. It is still very new but develops quickly. And it is very flexible. I, for one, like it and will use it. I am looking forward to meet you there

Inspired by the question by Damond Nollan on Google Reader:

“What do I have to change in my settings to encourage commenting within Google Reader? Second, how would you know people are commenting once you’ve read the post?”

I let myself compile this little how to which perhaps could be of a help also for others.

How to encourage commenting in Google Reader:

1. Go to Sharing settings

2. Assign people you follow and people following you to groups.

3. Edit settings of the group you want to share comments with.

4. In case you want to create special group – go to Google Contacts: http://www.google.com/contacts

how do you know that people are commenting on your shared post?

To check if shared by you item has the comments – go to ‘Comment view’ (just below ‘People you follow’).

I hope it will help new users of Google Reader. Enjoy!

PS: As for today, you will have to go through the procedure of “encouraging comments” every time you log into Google Reader and even each time you refresh it (probably due to some kind of small though annoying bug in the new, social “incarnation” of all Geeks favorite tool )

PS2: Interesting post on the subject by Damond Nollan here: http://www.damondnollan.com/2009/08/could-google-reader-become-next.html#

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Google Reader’s “Send to” Feature.

And for everybody “fighting” with making Send to link for WordPress in Google Reader, here are some simple instructions :

You open the settings in Google Reader and go Send to tab.

Create the custom link there as follows:

Name: Add to Any

URL: http://addtoany.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}

Icon URL: http://addtoany.com/favicon.ico

Big thank you to Avi Joseph (@Avinio) for help with this one and to Stefan (@svartling) for inspiration.

Enjoy!

EDIT:

For Posterous users

URL: http://posterous.com/share?linkto=${url}

- and the favicon uri is:

Icon URL: http://posterous.com/images/favicon.png

(it works – I checked! Enjoy!

Thanks to Svartling, I came across interesting and feature-rich web application today – Springpad.
Actually it’s much more than notebook and it’s very easy to use. It’s refreshing to find so user-friendly application with plenty possibilities (only your imagination sets the limits – see below: in comments of Svartling FF entry)

On aside note – Springpad is in beta and, as Svartling writes, one can have small problems at the beginning during registration process (my husband encountered this, too…). I had to repeat registration twice but at the end it worked – I’ve got confirmation e-mail. The application has the calendar, to-do lists, reminders and integration with fi. Google Calendar – well, I just started to play with it…

I suppose that next I will try the mobile interface of Springpad and possibility of publishing (I mean blogging, of course) notes. Perhaps one could also integrate it with FriendFeed…? Well, it’s just a vague idea.

Some excerpts from FriendFeed on Springpad:

• Svartling note on FF
• And two videos you can watch to get you started on Springpad

I hope you will enjoy this little web application as much as I do – especially, if you were searching for Google Notebook substitute – it seems to be a decent replacement option…

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