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I have been experiencing a lot of consternation lately about this following thing on Blogger. Not that I don't want to follow and have my little avatar on other people's blogs and stuff. That's not the problem. I already subscribe to a lot of blogs through Google reader. When the following thing came out, I didn't realize it would show me posts in my reader, from all the blogs I started following. If I chose to follow a blog I was already subscribed to - I was getting duel posts, every time. Made me crazy.
I could not figure out for the life of me, how not to get those double posts. I looked all over my Blogger settings to no avail. I ended up choosing to either follow somebody - or to subscribe, but not both. I was annoyed by the way the 'following' blogs were separated out at the bottom, but at least I wasn't getting double posts anymore.
So if somebody started to follow my blog, and I wanted to follow theirs, most likely I was already subscribed. So I would follow, and UNsubscribe.
I'm an idiot.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sometimes I think I'm always the last to know.
Babbled by BetteJo at 4:37 PM
Labels: DUH, following, subscribing
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2 Comments:
You and me both. I do exactly what you do. If the Google Blogger follows me and I follow them, that's fine. But those who aren't on Blogger, I subscribe in my reader instead.
I suspect Google came up with the following thing partly as a social networking method but also as a very simple reader.
Lady B I'm glad I was able to help! And I ran across the setting completely by accident too!
I think the 'show followed blogs in reader' option should have been attached to the following widget. That seems more logical to me.
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