Learning by Translating

Welcome to my new site!

I’ve been busy in the last few days because, as you can understand, I was getting everything ready for my new site!

On July 27, I wrote that I was “going through a creative phase” on Twitter. I remembered that a few nights earlier I had a dream in which I had a domain, and it was ilaria-translations.com. I’ve been wanting a “professional” (um, I’m still a student… but willing to do some translation work) domain for about a year, but I wasn’t sure about it until last month. I also bought it for my blog, because having Wordpress installed on a domain gives you the possibility of customizing your site more than you can do if you have a blog hosted on Wordpress.com.

Don’t forget to update your bookmarks/favourites/feed readers!

I have also a Feedburner feed —> http://feeds.feedburner.com/ilariatranslations

3. RSS Feed Reader

I read several blogs (about translation, languages and graphics design) and have a Google Reader account. Google Reader (it is not the only RSS feed reader though) helps me keep track of all the blogs I read. Every day there is always something new to read.

Until last year, I used to have a list of my favourite blogs on Firefox, then I discovered Google Reader. Now I can imagine how time consuming it was when I didn’t have an account there. I used to click on every single blog I had bookmarked to check if there were new posts on them. Having a feed reader saves time because, thanks to it, you can know when there is a new post on a blog. There is no need to visit the site  (you can add any site  with an RSS feed to your reader, not only blogs) most of the times: you can read the whole post on your feed reader. There are also other times (I think that depends on the blogging platform used) when the feed reader only shows part of the post, and a link you can click on if you’d like to read the whole post.

The video below is a simple tutorial on how to use Google Reader (very simple to use, in my opinion), but there are also links to other RSS feed readers you can use.

Even “Learning by Translating” can be read using a feed reader.

I found the video here. I tried to put it on my blog, but for some reason the code didn’t work.