I think I have mentioned Flipboard before. It is a mobile app I used on my iPad for reading the real world news.
Back in 2011 my company was suddenly obsessed with making mobile apps… one of those things where a senior exec reads about a trend and decides to jump on board without any real plan… and we ended up with a bunch of seminars and training classes on the subject. I have retained very little from that period, but in one seminar the speaker recommended Flipboard for reading the news on tablets. I downloaded, liked it, and have used it ever since.
It is light and easy to use and I tend to sit and flip through it before bed most nights.
Most major periodicals have a feed there. While it won’t let you skip past all paywalls… though it does get you past some… even when it doesn’t you can peruse headlines to see what is going on and compare how different outlets are approaching things. I have a pile of varied outlets there, including key foreign publications like the BBC, DW, and The Globe and Mail, the latter being the place to go for all things ice hockey. Canadians, eh?
You can also setup your own feeds in Flipboard through the app or, more easily for me, through their web site. I did that some time ago with my other blog, but that feed broke a while back, so I went in to try to fix it. I couldn’t do that, but I decided to setup another feed for this blog instead.
TAGN in with those other publications
So if you have Flipboard you can search on TAGN and find that feed. It is pretty obvious.
And, from there, you can go through the headlines and tap on articles you want to read.
EVE Online heavy on this page
Of course, if you too have a blog, you can set up a feed of your own there. It works off of an RSS feed, so was pretty simple to setup.
I would be interested to know if anybody ends up actually using Flipboard to read the blog… or can even find it there, since the status of my feed has been “pending” for a week… or if you setup a feed for your own blog there.
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