Google Speed Reader Baby

Tech news, Business news, Celebrity gossip, you can’t catch me off guard.  I’m always in the know.  My GF get’s mad cause I’m always up on the latest Hollywood gossip before she is.  I’m not proud of that, I just want to know when Jessica Simpson is single, and heading to Vegas.  haha jk. 

Fact is I crush through 1400+ News articles a day.  How do I do it?  Google Reader.  Famous Tech Maven Robert Scoble goes through 600 Feeds.  I think I’m only at like 200 feeds, but I already get a lot of dup postings, and can’t imagine what kinda of duplicates that man gets.  Here’s the big big secret..  Use Keyboard Shortcuts. 

j/k item down/up selects the next/previous item in the list
space/shift-space page down/up moves the page down/up
n/p scan down/up in list view, selects the next item without opening it
o open/close item in list view, expands or collapses the selected item
enter open/close item in list view, expands or collapses the selected item
s toggle star stars the selected item
shift-s toggle share shares the selected item
m mark as read/unread switches the read state of the selected item
t tag an item opens the tagging field for the selected item
v view original opens the original source for this article in a new window
shift-a mark all as read marks all items in the current view as read
1 expanded view displays the subscription as expanded items
2 list view displays the subscription as a list of headlines
r refresh refreshes the unread counts in the navigation
shift-n/p navigation down/up selects the next/previous subscription or folder in the navigation
shift-x navigation expand/collapse expand or collapse a folder selected in the navigation
shift-o navigation open subscription opens the item currently selected in the navigation
gh go to home goes to the Google Reader homepage
ga go to all items goes to the “All items” view
gs go to starred items goes to the “Starred items” view
gt go to tag allows you to navigate to a tag by entering the tag name
gu go to subscription allows you to navigate to a subscription by entering the subscription name
u toggle full screen mode hides and shows the list of subscriptions
? keyboard shortcuts help displays a quick guide to all of Reader’s shortcuts

Voila! - Just don’t Shift-A my feed…
–D

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