After the recent catastrophe, things are settling down and i have decided to start reading more seo blogs. Not just seo blogs, i have also been using as much free time i am getting to read seo books, watch seo videos and catch up on the numerous webmaster and seo blogs , by subscribing to their feeds. Every day you learn something new - and it is necessary to keep one’s self updated with the industry. I am currently subscribed to Matt Cutts, Jill Whalen, Danny Sullivan , SeoMoz, Bill Slawski , Aaron Wall to name a few. I was truly not this organized in my reading before , even though i definitely checked those before too.
When i started thinking that i will do this, i wondered if I could do it with Outlook 2007 as thats something i use regularly to check for emails , so i might be able to check on these from time to time as well and not really have to open “any” site whatsoever for reading up.
MS @#!%^^# is hardly ever so rosy , that it will allow you to do what you want when you want it … ( and I am usually not a MS hater) . The first time added the feeds for seobook and mattcutts google only feed, i got
the items neatly in my inbox as i wanted, categorised by personal folder names . And ever since i tried downloading mails , after the mails got downloaded … outlook started generating errors - saying , Outlook 2007 can not download the feed as it can not reach / connect to server at www.mattcutts.com and such . I tried few many times, closing the app and restarting the machine even … with no joy. So i then decided to Google for it - using the language in the error , and in the first page i got my answer - more or less. As Mr. Bill wants every chance he gets , to try and push you to the not so pretty IE7 … , such actions like subscribing to feeds using Outlook 2007 is not possible with IE6.x and to properly fix it , you need to upgrade
So after looking around for various feed readers - client apps or web based , i decided to go for using iGoogle. Typically i always preferred using the basic Google homepage as was never really a news reader or spent any amount of time finding latest stock updates or sports news for that matter . But it has a pretty neat system in place for me to customize the stuff i want - not just on the homepage , but also allowing me to use / create tabs for categorizing the content . Below is a pic of how I have got my subscriptions setup . Previously i have also tried using simply Google reader , but this seems little more convenient .

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