The Real Blogger Status

One of the two main benefits from Following a blog is an automatically placed subscription, to the feed from that blog. The feed can be immediately read, using the Reading List, at the bottom of the Blogger dashboard . After you add more than a few blogs to your Followed community, your Reading List will become a bit cluttered. Some Bloggers become concerned, and want to organise their Reading List. How do I change the order of my Reading List? or How do I make folders, for the blogs that I Follow? or How do I let other people see the feeds, from the blogs that I Follow? They are overlooking Google Reader, which is just one click away from the dashboard. Google Reader provides the solutions, for each of the above questions. Just click on "View in Google Reader". And there, we have plenty of possibilities, for organising and sharing your Followed blogs, and your subscriptions. >> Top

Having noted a couple downsides of the new Blogger community, Following, I have been intrigued to note that a number of bloggers are in agreement with me on one issue - Following interaction with Google Reader is a bit rough. Or was, for a while. The advice we get about Following, in this capability, is following a blog will create a subscription to the blog in your Google Reader account. That's a rather vague statement, and says nothing about what happens if a given blog is already in Google Readers, or what happens when you remove a Followed blog from your Reading List. So, I decided to find out what happens. Having accumulated a small number of interesting blogs in my Reading List, I clicked on the View in Google Reader link. I see all of my Followed blogs, plus a few others that I added some time ago. The advice is You can also hide followed blogs if you'd rather not see them in Reader. Good advice, so now they aren't seen. I click on the Manage Subscriptions link,...