Best Add-On For Firefox EVER. Feedly.com: “A Magazine-Like Start Page”

I try to stay ahead of the “technology, music, fashion, culture, restaurant, food trend, and local curve” as much as possible: By following a BAAAAgillion different blogs/news sites of course. However, given my hyperactive and attention-deficit disposition I personally, find it “difficult” to click on EVERY blog in succession and carefully read through each one, everyday. And by “difficult”, I mean physically, no, laughably impossible.

I LOVE the L.A. Times’ website. I just do. There might be better news/lifestyle websites and I KNOW, it’s LA-focused — NOT San Diego –
However, just look at it, its lay out: IS PERFECT. Everything is just, RIGHT THERE.
Section by section, categories: News, culture, and Events – and it spits out those necessary breaking news headlines that keep me worldly-oriented — outside of la la Mixster land.

However, I obviously don’t live in L.A.  So most of the “local” news for me — is totally out of context. And considering it doesn’t even begin to cover literally half the stuff I actually do focus on for this site, it’s kind of personally irrelevant for me anyways –  minus the standard AP news headlines of course.

So what if I had that comfortable, clean, and organized lay out, category by category of those sources (i.e. blogs and websites) that DO interest me?

Ah ha!

Well, that is what Feedly.com is for: An add-on right into your Firefox search engine, that allows you to pick and choose which sources you want to include, and let’s you organize the interface into personalized categories; Resulting in your very own online daily magazine. Only thing that disappoints me about this site — is the fact I’ve only just found out about it NOW!!!

What you see here is my personalized “cover”: The most recently updated RSS feeds of the newest posts on each of my favorite websites/blogs.

On the far left in the column, you can see I’ve made myself 4 separate categories – Fashion – Music- Local- Design- each section organized into that separate focus; so I can easily search for particular posts if need be!

Also, the search bar in my personal feed burner, makes it even MORE SIMPLE to find what I need in a flash.

It even displays my current Twitter feed – so I essentially can gather all my news, and my updates, in one place. It even allows me to Tweet from the feed page, if I feel so inclined to do so.

**If you DON’T have/use Firefox yet, go download it RIGHT NOW. It’s Free. And it’s SO much better than Safari, especially if you use WordPress as much as I do.

Then:
1) Go to your Preferences,
2) Go to “MANAGE ADD-ONs”,
3) Select “Get Add-Ons” tab, and
4) Select link in bottom right-hand corner “See All Recommended Add-Ons”
4) find “Feedly” in the “Most Recommended” category, — which should be the first page you see anyways.

5) Press “Add to Firefox button” – and BAM! You’re in with a grin.

Just follow instructions at the top of your new page and add your favorite content, simply by dropping in the site’s hyperlink or RSS feed.
And don’t forget to add in your very favorite source of all: http://TheMixster.com — so that you can be up-to-date and “in the know” on all those things nightlife, culture, and heck, sometimes even technology, -minded; locally, and beyond.

By: TD