1. So you have something you have a writing, photograph, or recording that you want to share with other people. How do you do it?
   1. You could post it to the Web and put together a list of e-mail addresses of your audience, and then either you e-mail your piece directly to them or you e-mail its address.
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   2. You could post it to a specialized web site
      1. Blog directories
         • Blogwise
         • Bloglines directory
         • Kinja
      2. Photograph directories
      • Flickr
      3. Podcast directories
      • The bottom of the iTunes podcast page
   3. You could rely on a search engine to index it
   1. How a search engine works
   • Automatic or manual indexing
   2. General search engines
   • Google, Yahoo, ...
   3. Blog search engines
   • Google blog search
   • Feedster, which actually indexes feeds, but takes you to the blog that produced them
   • note that the blog directories mentioned above are all indexed, so they count here, too
   4. Photograph search engines
   • Yahoo Images
   • Google Images
   5. Podcast search engines
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   4. You could tag it and post the tag in an appropriate place.
      1. How tagging works
      2. Finding a blog by tag
      • Technorati's Blog Finder
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   5. You could syndicate it as a feed.
      1. How feed syndication works
      2. How to receive and read feeds
         • You need an aggregator (also called a newsreader, feed reader or RSS reader) to be able read a syndicated blog.
         • Blogger's "How do I change my site feed settings?", mentioned last week, can orient you.
         • Watch our FaceBook group to add new feeds to your aggregator.
      3. Aggregators are popping up everywhere. Here are some possibilites, organized according to what device you use them on:
         1. Desktop aggregators
         • Feed reading is incorporated into a recent versions of most web browsers. For instance, whenever you navigate in Firefox to a page that has a feed, this icon appears, which you can click on to save as a bookmark. The disadvantage of using a web browser is that the feeds that you save are updated everytime you open the browser, which can slow it down considerably if you have a lot. That's why I prefer a dedicated or or stand-alone aggregator.
         • On my Macs I use the discrete RSS Menu. A new cross-platform reader is BlogBridge. See the page on RSS Readers/News Aggregators at RSSCalender for a more complete list.
         2. Cell-phone aggregators
         3. Online aggregators.
            • Some portals incorporate feed reading into their personalized home page, such as MyMSN, Google Personalized Home Page, MyYahoo!, which you read through your web browser.
            • Some websites do nothing but aggregate feeds for you, such as Rojo, Bloglines, and Newsgator.
            • Many blogs have 'chicklets' (little icons) which you click on to add the blog's feed to your account at the aggregator. Here are the chicklets of the ones I just mentioned:
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      4. Feed search engines
      • There does not appear to be any such thing, but see Feedser under "blog search engines"
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