Showing posts with label RSS Feed Mania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSS Feed Mania. Show all posts

Saturday, July 14, 2007

RSS Feeds Are AWESOME

In the past 45 minutes I've metamorphasized from a normal human being into a GREAT BIG GEEK!!! I really love Bloglines. In fact, I think I may marry it. (Geeks are allowed to make geek-y jokes, right??)
As you could probably tell, I tend to be a Google snob and think everything Google creates is better than anything their rivals create. But I've changed my mind. I looked at Google Reader, and John had even set me up a Google Reader account as part of my iGoogle home page, but I have to say I prefer Bloglines. It is more user friendly and fun.
I've been meaning to set up an RSS feed (is this the correct term?) for a long time. Like they said in that little video, I was wasting lots of time clicking on different blogs and websites to see what was new. What's more, I had trouble keeping track of which sites I wanted to keep up with, so I just had a huge, amorphous list of Bookmarks. I was reading SLJ today and feeling overwhelmed because there were all these great Blogs referred to, but I knew I could never remember to check all of them. No longer!!!
So I've been subscribing away over at Bloglines. I'm adding all of the 23 Things Participants from Caroline County so I can keep up with what everyone's doing, I've got a Libraryland folder, and even a FUN folder (remember Habit 7.5?). It's kind of time-consuming to set it all up at first, but just think of how wonderful it will be when I can go to ONE PLACE to keep up-to-date with everything. And the next time I spot a cool blog, I know what to do with it!