Why Don't You Use Google Reader?

You have a Google account already, because it's 2009 and only the most absurdly stubborn and closed minded people haven't gotten on the bandwagon yet. You use a lot of Google products already, maybe iGoogle, Google docs, or Google Calendar (my personal favorite). But you haven't started using Google Reader. I'm trying to find out why.

Your first question is going to be "How do you know I don't use Reader?" and my answer is, because if you are reading this blog, you are probably one of my Gmail contacts, and there are only 5 that use reader, so you can't tell me you do.

Do you check any online resource frequently for news? If your answer is no, then you should start keeping up with the world now, because you're old enough. If you're answer is yes, you are doing it the old fashioned way. I used to be limited to checking one or two news sources a day, because that was all the free time I had to skim through headlines. But now I get through, on average, 300 headlines a day from dozens of online and published news sources from around the globe.

I could go on about all the cool features of Google Reader, but its a Google product so thats a given, and they promote their own products enough. The reason I'm annoyed with you, is because one of the best ways to learn about news is to hear it from friends. Can you imagine if 15 of your closest intelligent friends all sent you one great article everyday. All of a sudden, you aren't browsing papers anymore, your morning news is straight from your friends, people you can really trust.

Just give it a shot, its really easy to get started, and every site you go to already has an RSS feed. If you need help let me know. I already have dozens of great articles shared through Reader, and I can't wait to see yours!