The learninginhand.com blog and podcast, owned and maintained by Tony Vincent, focuses on mobile devices for educators. Tony puts all his podcasts in a Grazr widget. You might want to get a copy, even if you’re not a teacher. There’s some good information in this one.
The Earners’ Blog gives useful tips on how to build traffic to your site using links. The author even lists Grazr widgets as a good tool for link building, and The Earners’ Blog widget is currently one of the most popular at Grazr.com.
BuildBible.com has posts and a discussion forum on a wide range of construction related topics. User buildbible constructed a Grazr to keep track of those topics, all the way from air purifiers to safety equipment for your pool. Building a house? You might want to get your own copy of this Grazr widget.
The SurReal Art Portal gets some Grazr love from a user with a widget dedicated to the feed. Pay attention to this one and you will find out more about dream symbols and surrealist image classification.
I’m not sure what that is, but Grazr user petcup created a widget that collects the feeds from PetCup.com, a blog with lots of different kinds of advice for pet owners.
The Being a Blogger blog has lots of good information for would-be good bloggers. Grazr.com user Nishu saw the potential and whipped up a widget worthy of a place in your sidebar.
Debbie’s got some blogs, and she has a message for you: ovarian cancer is bad, and music is good. You’ll see what I mean after you take a look at the feeds in this widget. If you’re a music-loving cancer hater (and who isn’t), you’ll want your own copy of this Grazr.
jameskm03 made a great Grazr that collects the blog feed authored by Wofford College’s webmaster, Kyle James. Kyle’s blog is all about Internet marketing and Web development, from a higher education perspective. Take a look at some of the posts - you may find this Grazr worthy of a spot on your own site.
At the Ribaldry and Schmaltz blog, J Shifty is the MC of all things Rhapsody. He manages to find and discuss all kinds of oddball playlists and new releases. Tucked in the right sidebar is a Grazr of his ribald Rhapsody playlist. Give it a listen.
David Hunter, who runs the International Association of Bioethics blog, wanted a way to aggregate and organize the RSS feeds from major philosophy and bioethics academic journals. He found Grazr to be a great solution, with a little bit of tweaking.
Hunter was looking for something that would let him share his collection of RSS feeds with other academics. “I had set up a Netvibes page, which aggregated all the table of contents of the relevant journals in bioethics,” Hunter says, ”but there was no way to share it with others (who were quite keen to use it) without giving them access to my own personal page. I searched for RSS feed aggregators, tried a bunch of things that didn’t work well, and then found Grazr.” Hunter had tried using Pageflakes but “it was a major hassle to keep updated since it didn’t update from an OPML.”
Hunter really likes the ease of use factor with Grazr. “It’s fantastic, because it was easy when I started using it to just point it at an OPML file elsewhere and keep it updated automatically when I added more feeds. Of course now it is even easier since the files hosted at Grazr have become easy to modify.” Hunter says Grazr is also easy for users to figure out, “which is great when you are presenting something that is going to be used by a bunch of academics in philosophy, some of whom are fairly computer-phobic.”
He says the “trickiest” part of using Grazr was making it accessible from the front page, but keeping it from dominating the layout. “Eventually I figured out how to put one in a java box.” Visitors to the site need only click below “Motherlode of Philosophy Journal Tables of Content, News, Blogs and Resources,” to “pop-in” a Grazr widget in the sidebar.
Hunter would like to be able to add a feed to his Grazr right in his browser, he says, but in the meantime he recommends that others take advantage of the help files. “Almost everything I’ve done with the Grazr I figured out just by reading the help files and experimenting.” He thinks mailing list addicts could benefit from Grazr widgets. “Mailing lists are quite easily converted into RSS feeds, which can then be aggregated with a Grazr. This is really useful if you have several large mailing lists. This way you can quickly glance down the titles but only open the interesting ones, rather than having to wade through all the emails.”