Google Reader lets you tag blogs and blog posts and share those items with your friends. You get a feed, a HTML page or a clip you can add to your site.If you use the code from Google Reader, the clip will only show the titles of the latest items and a link to the source. Fortunately, Google Reader has a callback parameter that lets you add your JavaScript code that does more than the default features.1. Make a tag publicGo to Settings/Tags and c

It’s been an interesting weekend to watch the blogosphere’s fleeting excitement as one by one, they realize their RSS subscriber count hasn’t actually seen a huge increase, Google’s just made some changes to the way it reports Google Reader and Google Homepage subscribers.
That said, it’s still nice to see your Feedburner stats take a jump.

Darren has more.

Remember I told you yesterday that Google started to reveal the number of feed subscribers for Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage? Well, I was shocked to see the numbers when I visited Feedburner this morning. You’ll say these stats are skewed because this is a blog about Google, so it’s normal that the readers are more likely to use Google tools

Google Reader added a subscriber reporting feature for feed publishers today – though it is worth noting that Bloglines has been doing this for years already.  As a publisher, it can be very difficult to get a sense of your actual readership due to the vast number of people using feed aggregators — that's why this feature is so important.
You can read more about this new addition, and at the same time get some good publisher tips here. [...]

Google lets you subscribe to a feed in two ways: using the personalized homepage, by adding a new module that shows only the headlines (although you can read the whole feed by expanding each item) and using Google Reader, a full-fledged online feed reader (well, almost full because there’s no search in Google Reader).The problem was that Google was too afraid to report the number of subscribers to these services, so you couldn’t know for sure how many readers of your feed use Google

Google Reader has a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts, but most of them only replace a click or two. For example, you can star an item by typing s or go to the original page by typing v.But there’s also a somewhat hidden view that can be activated only using shortcuts. If you type gu, you’ll see a list of all of the blogs you’ve subscribed to

Google’s feed reader lets you view videos from YouTube and Google Video, if they are embedded in a post. Until now, the feed should have contained enclosures, which is not possible in many blog softwares, including Blogger.Feed readers ignore some code (embedded objects, JavaScript, iframes) for security reasons

Here’s everything else that caught my eye today, but didn’t make it to the blog.

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I read hundreds of blog posts each day - ok, sometimes just the titles - and unfortunately don’t have time to comment on all of the ones I find interesting. Instead of these becoming “vosts” (vaporized posts), I’ve started sharing them via Google Reader.
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If you’ve not subscribed to our RSS link blog - Pilgrim’s Picks (via Google Reader) - here’s some of the great posts you missed… 

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Google’s added a nifty little tool to Google Reader that allows you to view stats on your RSS reading trends. I’m not quite sure how this information is going to help me - other than prove I am addicted to blog reading - but it’s somewhat fun to examine.
What would be cool is to see this data across the entire Google Reader user base (anonymous of course)

Before I head out to the finest (and authentic) french restaurant in Raleigh - Saint Jacques - for a New Year’s celebration dinner, I wanted to let you know about a new item you’ll find in the Marketing Pilgrim sidebar.
Pilgrim’s Picks is tied directly to my “shared” items in Google Reader

A very observant Googling Googler noticed today that he can now rename feeds in Google Reader — this is quite useful when you have good feeds with annoying titles.

[Thanks Joe]