Comments on: ReadTwit and GReader – two great tastes that taste great together

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:55:36 +0000

Awesome! EXACTLY what I have been looking for!

-greader groupie

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:35:43 +0000

Thanks for this fantastic tip. I have been using Instapaper on iPhone Tweetie app for selective harvesting of links from Twitter but this bulk feed into GReader is just what I needed.

By: Chris Lott

Chris Lott — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:59:06 +0000

I made most of these same points to my students on Wed night about the value of ReadTwit… for me it’s a highly valuable resource but not one that– as Stephen Downes implies– replaces following people and reading the context.

The real value is in the way ReadTwit feeds Twitter resources into a very strong mechanism with a history and easy sharing/noting/etc. I didn’t even THINK about the search in Google Reader, which is something I always forget about.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:42:42 +0000

Incredibly valuable piece. Thank you! A tool that grabs the links out of Twitter and eliminates repeats? Huge help.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:39:35 +0000

Definitely good ideas Alan, thanks!

I hesitate to highlight any one feed reader, like GReader as this post does, because ultimately I think we want people to get into the flow and be free to chose the tools that work for them, not adopt MY particular workflow. But it’s hard not to highlight GReader – it has slowly matured to being an indispensable tool for me, and if only it would support authenticated feeds (COME ON GOOGLE!) it would be near perfect for how I work.

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:25:09 +0000

I know I heard about this from a tweet out of Chris Lott; I have it in my GReader, but have not quite as active in link harvesting.

The other leap one can do with the links from GReader is then use its share functions to do things like send the link (and your comments) via email, or better, to tag the link in delicious (I used the Firefox delicious extension so you can boommark via contextual menu).