I've moved my blog....woot

This is the final post of readreidsblog.blogspot.com :(

But fear not, everything has been moved over to reidyokoyama.com

I'm still working out some of the kinks with owning my new domain, so please bear with me; but this is the final post I'll be making on this blog. Thanks for being a loyal reader and continuing to follow my extraordinarily interesting life on my new site.

Google Reader Keeps on Rocking (and sign up for my RSS Feed!)

And you thought I only blogged about American Idol, didn't you?

This past year I've gotten into using RSS feeds to keep up with news and blogs that normally took a tedious amount of time to load the page, figure out what was updated, and so on and so forth. Google Reader has thoroughly impressed me with its ease in adding a blog feed and allowing me to quickly process a plethora of content in a shorter amount of time. One that that's really awesome is that you can browse through all of your feeds using your keyboard--check out the Official Google Reader Blog post for all of those handy tips. My personal favorite is simply pushing 'j' to get to the next item in my feed, especially for news sites that post a large number of articles I like to simply skim through.

With that said, if you've stumbled across this site or are an avid fan (I love you all!) and want to syndicate my content for your feed, simply click here or the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" link on the bottom of my blog. You'll me able to get instant updates of my posts and have the ability to scroll through it even faster.

Reworking my tags

When I first started this blog, I thought about tagging posts with whatever subject they were about. I never really thought much about organization - that maybe if I just wrote enough, there would be enough overlap. From a readers' perspective, however, everything was too specific that the purpose of tags - which I believe to be some simple organization based on a common theme or subject, was lost.

So, I've spent some time going over my old posts and decided on the following tags from hereon out:

Biking - road and mountain
Blog - posts related to updating this blog...like this one!
Books/Magazines
Check this out - news articles or video clips I recommend you take a look at
Food - for posts related to restaurants I've recently eaten at
Games - Xbox360 and other stuff
Google - stuff about the greatest search engine ever
History - at one point I was a history major
Travel - places I've been/want to go to
Meta - personal life related posts aka the 'Dear Diary' stuff
Music - live bands or recordings
Photography - pictures I've taken
Politics - various political related posts
Prius - since I drive one, maybe this will have some future use
Sports - self explanatory
Television/Movies
Uncategorized
Work - things related to working

I'll be adding a tag area to the right side navigation of my blog, in case you're ever interested in sorting posts based by each tag.