How to publish a blogroll of your Google Reader RSS feeds
Google Reader has a neat feature where you can publicise your RSS subscriptions in a “blogroll”.
A blogroll is a list of links and when you make one of your RSS categories public, you can then instruct Google Reader to generate a list of all the blog links in that category, which you can then publish on your own website. It is an excellent way to publicise your favourite blogs and show people what you’re reading.
But for it to work, you need to have organised your RSS subscriptions into categories or folders (the name of which depends on how you look at them. I personally prefer the word categories).
Here’s how to do it :
- First, go to your Google Reader settings then the “tags” sub-tab. Choose the categories / folders you want to make blogrolls for by ticking the boxes.
- Then go to the drop down box at the top and change the sharing permissions from private to public.
When the selected categories have been made public, you should now have a bunch of links to the right, including one that says “add a blogroll to your site”
Click on that link and a pop-up box will appear :
Copy and paste the javascript code provided into the webspace where you want to publicise the blogroll. That’s it. Easy.
Adding a wonderful feature like blogroll is made very much simplified.
Thank you.
I am not so sure if I would share my reading list. Though this is an interesting tool I don’t think I would make it public. My feed agregator is some what of a learning tool and quite personal. Some might take offense if they don’t find there feed in it. Don’t think I will be sharing but I am sure interested to read others…
Wow, it styles very nicely. This tip is right in time for my redesign, too :).
Nice tip, but there are 3rd party plugins and hacks to kick out the javascript-heavy, bloated widget.
Thank you for taking the time to post your valuable insight, Sumesh. I’m sure somewhere inside you’re quite proud of yourself, knowing that you “know” something another reader may not.
If you’re going to take a shot at something by touting alternatives, the least you could do is provide references to said “alternatives”.
Do us all a favor and use proper netiquette and don’t waste others’ time with your chest thumping.
Yes, I for one would LOVE to know a third party tool for exporting your Google Reader RSS subscriptions into a RSS blogroll for your website. Please Sumesh? Some examples?