Google Reader is an easy way to keep up with new content on blogs (providing that the blog site uses “web feeds,” as mine do). To use Google Reader, you must have a Google account. (If you would like to consider other options for keeping up with blogs, see “how to use it.”) The advantage of Google Reader is that it is web-based, meaning you can log on from any computer with internet access and get caught up on your blogs.

Here is an easy way to get started (I hope).

• If you have a Google Account, go to Google Reader. You will have to log in if not already.
• On the left, you should see a button that says, “Add subscription.” Click on that.
• Copy in the url (or web address) of the blog that you want to add to your reader and press the add button. Try this one – http://steward-family-and-life.elpidzo.com/
• If it comes up “(title unknown)” has no items, then the blog is not configured for readers like Google Reader and you will have to keep visiting the website to read the blog.
• Otherwise, you should see a list of the articles that are currently at that blog site.
• On the top right of the view window for the blog, you can toggle between “list view” and “expanded view.” Try that to see the difference.
• On the top left of the view window for the blog, you can toggle between “all items” or “new items.” A “new item” is one that you have not viewed yet.

Unread blog entries will be bold face. Once you have viewed an article, it will not be bold face.

Click on a entry title and the article should expand so that you can read it.
If you click on the Blog Name at the very top, it will take you to the blog.

Here are the urls of my other blogs:

• Greg Steward’s Piece of Mind - http://gsmind.elpidzo.com/
• Hey! - http://gshey.elpidzo.com/
• Greg Steward’s Miscellanies - http://gsmisc.elpidzo.com/

Here are three other blogs that I find myself going to quite often.

• Between Two Worlds: A Mix of Theology, Philosophy, Politics, and Culture - http://theologica.blogspot.com/
• Desiring God – http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/
• Jesus Creed - http://www.jesuscreed.org/

Now go to bed.