As much as a balanced breakfast, a healthy regimen of news reading can start your day off right. Here are two tips to help you consume 100% of your recommended daily allowance of news articles and blog posts in myEarthLink Reader:

Add to myReader Button

A great way to keep a steady influx of your interests flowing into myEarthLink Reader is to use the Add to my Reader toolbar button. I use this often to quickly add a news source to myReader from the web site I want to track. Using either the Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari browser, I can easily tell when a web site has a feed I can add to myReader. These indicators appear:

Firefox:    Safari:

Incidentally, the next version of Microsoft Internet Explorer will use the same orange icon as Firefox, which we at EarthLink are thrilled about, since it so nicely matches our color palette.

After adding the toolbar button to whichever browser you use, you're just a click away from adding a website to the sources you watch.

Manage Sources

I personally track between 150 and 200 sources at any given time in myReader. I use the Manage Sources page to weed out sources that are either stale or no longer interest me.

On the Manage Sources page, you can:

• Edit the title and description of any source you subscribe to
• Find out the last time each of your sources updated with a new article
• Be alerted to sources that haven't updated in the past month, and therefore...
• Remove sources you no longer want to track

Making it easy to add and remove sources based on your interests will keep your myReader experience fresh and relevant, with daily and even hourly updates of the things you want to see.