Sometimes I’m in the mood to read longer articles. I would love to be able to search within Feedly for articles over a particular word count. If you would like Feedly to add “article length” as one of the advanced search criteria filters, please upvote this suggestion on their suggestion board.
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Replace Facebook with Feedly for your source of blogs
Tired of Facebook picking what articles you see? Do you ever get frustrated by how Facebook often doesn’t show you articles from Pages you really like? Feedly is your answer for following the blogs you enjoy. You get to pick what you see, and you’ll never miss a post! Plus, you can easily mark posts […]
Icebreakers for book readers
Would you like some handy conversation questions in a tiny pocket zine? You can print out this one-page PDF made by Jamie Glass. Then fold it up into a little pocket zine. (Found via zinelibraries.info) These are the icebreaker questions in the zine: Print books or e-books? [PERSON’S NAME] reads: [ ] Print only [ […]
Amazon might open 300-400 physical bookstores across America
Amazon already has a physical bookstore open in Seattle. Chicago is due to get two bookstores next year. Portland and San Diego are due to get an Amazon bookstore. Just how many bookstores does Amazon plan on opening? Publishers Weekly reports: Sandy Mathrani, head of General Growth Properties, said in response to a question about […]
Subscribe to a blog’s posts in reverse chronological order
Sometimes you come across a blog that is just incredible. After reading the latest ten to twenty posts, you want to read more. Instead you subscribe to the blog, figuring you’ll just read the new posts as they come in. An entire untapped archive of posts are waiting to be read. It’s a shame that these older posts won’t get […]
Will Pinterest become the champion of saving online content?
With Pinterest changing its “Pin It” button to “Save” a few months ago, they are focusing on the saving aspect of content, instead of pinning it to a visual board. Pinning, saving. What’s the difference? Pinning something to a board implies short-term use. You have a project going on, and you want to gather information […]
NPR doesn’t want you to talk on their island
NPR’s decision to disable comments from their site is quite disappointing. On face value, it’s understandable why NPR shut off comments. Most of them are simply flamers and trolls. Tech blogger Anthony Dean notes that some types of sites simply don’t receive quality comments. Whereas other sites do receive quality comments. Thankfully, my sites haven’t seen […]
Instead of ad blocking, control which ads you can see
You buy a product online, and then the next day an ad for the very same product is shown do you. Do you wish you could right-click on the ad to say, “I already own this. No more ads for this product.” That would be handy, right? “I don’t need to own another one of […]
Facebook Pages by Matt’s friends
Yesterday I outlined how to create a Facebook list of only Pages you want. It’s great, you get a handy list to force Facebook to show you posts that you want to see. But then there’s the chance you don’t even know that a friend has a Page. I put together this list so people can scan […]
How to force Facebook to show posts from certain Pages
Tired of how Facebook doesn’t show you posts from your friend’s Facebook Pages? Crazy, right? You are friends with someone, yet you never see what’s on their Facebook Page in your news stream. Here’s how to fix it so Facebook will show you posts from Facebook Pages that YOU specify. Use lists in Facebook–wait–Facebook has lists? […]