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Imagine a future filled with web content served to you at your finger tips like your own personal newspaper...for free!

Well imagine no more. Thanks to RSS feeds, the future is here.

If you ARE currently using an RSS reader, awesome. Please subscribe to my feed by clicking here:
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If you are NOT currently using an RSS reader, please read on.

I prefer Google Reader, but there are other great RSS Readers out there. Try one out. It will change your life...or at least the way you consume content.

In that spirit, here's a helpful/cheesy video about how simple Google Reader is to use.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now.

Because let's be honest, no one wants to disobey a 56 yr old bearded black man who wears tons of gold and runs with a crack commando unit that escaped from a maximum security prison.

1,000,000,000,000 Pages on the Web

I heard this weekend that there are now over 1 Trillion pages on the world wide web. According to The Official Google Blog...

"We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!"

Wow! I can't really comprehend that big of a number. But the real question isn't how many pages are on the internet, but rather how many of them are useful to YOU. The good news is, there's no need to waste hours and hours scouring the web to find relevant content.

Thanks to RSS readers like Google Reader, NetNewsWire, and Bloglines you can now bring the web's best content to you. It's like having your own personal newspaper version of the internet. Pretty cool.

So to all the web designers, bloggers, journalists, comedians, and other content creators please keep it coming! Here's looking forward to a quadrillion pages.


In other news, according to The New York Times China now surpasses the U.S. in number of internet users.

It's A Google Life for Me (and you too)

As I've said before, I love me some Google. I've helped set up a few friends recently on iGoogle, Google Reader, etc. Some of you use Google to do everything but brush your teeth, and some of you use it to search for things online. The rest of you are somewhere in between in your Google relationship.

Just in case you're in the "search only" camp, I thought I would share a few tools you might enjoy. If you like Google for search, there's great news! Just as search helped organized the intricate world wide web, these services bring the web to you in a very personalized way.

Here are the 3 steps for revolutionizing your web experience (trust me, it's easy and you'll never look at the internet the same):

1. iGoogle - It's your own personalized home page that you can customize with widgets, templates, etc. No Google Account required.

2. Gmail - Once you've found your way around iGoogle, may I suggest upgrading from your old school web mail client (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) The way it organizes emails into conversation threads is something you don't know you need until you use it a few times.

3. Google Reader - Now that you are using iGoogle and easily switched over your Hotmail to Gmail, you're ready for that next step. Sign up for Google Reader, and enjoy the entire web served up on a RSS platter just for you. I use it to subscribe to close to 100 RSS feeds. Everything from friends' blogs to ESPN, Mac, and business news gets fed to my iGoogle in real time.

Along those lines, if you do have Google Reader, I just added an RSS feed to my blog. So now you can read it at JohninOrlando.com, on Facebook Notes, or in your RSS Reader of choice.

Keep on reading (all four of you, you know who are) and thank you to those of you adding your two cents and encouraging notes along the way. You rock!