GRSI, the ultimate guide into

It’s funny in a sad way that posts are more dis­cussed in Google Reader than in their own com­ment sec­tions nowadays, but I find myself hanging out there longer and longer every­day and I hon­estly enjoy the con­ver­sa­tions going on there. But it isn’t too easy to set it up all work­ing, and there are many things you can’t know if some­body won’t tell you. Thus this guide. I’ll go from the step of open­ing GR the first time, so who already uses Google Reader as their default feed reader may skip to step 3.

1. You need a Google account.

If you haven’t one, cre­ate yours here. Every­body has a Google account nowadays.

2. Open Google Reader.

Sub­scribe to some feeds if it’s your first time, an empty feedreader makes feel ronery.

3. Open ‘Shar­ing Settings’

• Change vis­ib­il­ity to ‘Public’
• Mark all groups as checked

4. Fol­low people

Find­ing people on GR from scratch is not easy at all. You have to know their e-mail address at the very least. I can point to some people who dom­in­ate my stream, as ‘basic equipment’:

• Owen
• Eternal
• Usagijen

Now, to ‘fol­low’ them, do the fol­low­ing (for each):

1. Open the link
2. After the page loads, a box with the head­line ‘These items are being shared in Google Reader’ will appear
3. Click on the ‘Fol­low’ but­ton in that box

5. Open ‘Shar­ing Set­tings’ (again)

1. Click on ‘You are fol­low­ing [num­ber] people’
2. In the appeared list, click on ‘Add to a group’
3. Click on ‘Add to Friends’
4. Do this with every per­son in the list

6. You are ready to go!

Try shar­ing items from the feeds you are sub­scribed to (at the bot­tom of each entry, there is a link ‘Share with note’ — that’s the way to go) and com­ment­ing on shares by others.

List of anib­log­gers in GRSI

I will update it as I will find more people (whose pro­files are public).

• Owen
• Eternal
• Usagijen
• Ghost­light­ning
• Jusuchin85
• Schneider
• Mar­tin B.
• 53RG10
• (me)
• Scamp

Also, to be publically-accessable like that, you need to cre­ate your Pub­lic Google Pro­file and ‘Add a link to your shared items on your Google Pro­file’ in ‘Shar­ing Settings’.