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February 12, 2004
addicted
to Bloglines that is. I don't have any clue how I surfed without it. If you don't have an RSS feed on your blog (MT and Typepad users usually have it installed automatically), get moving...it's the best thing since sliced bread if you try to keep up with many many blogs.
I have 127 in mine, in categories of literary, personal blogs (of which the literary minded ones go into literary), web (entertainment, metafilter, scriptygoddess, and more), food, technology, marketing and news. Absolutely amazing that I can take an hour and scan through that many sites and feel either:
a. numb
b. informed
c. guilty for procrastination
d. mind-boggled
e. entertained
Some of my favorite blogs don't have RSS feeds though, and that's a shame (nudging those of you in my always read links)...
God I love technology.
Posted by crystallyn at February 12, 2004 10:01 PM
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I'm with you! I use NetNewsWire on the Mac, and I can't imagine surfing without it now. Instead of manually surfing to all those sites (most of which I'd forget to go to anyway), it just tells me when they have new content. Woo! I love it.
Posted by: Sean at February 13, 2004 08:30 AM
I'm so archaic: I used tabbed browser windows in Mozilla for all my daily must-reads.
Posted by: Ancarett at February 13, 2004 02:35 PM
Is that what those ** are beside some of the links you have?
Hmmm I should see about fixing it up so I have that too.
Posted by: Legenae at February 13, 2004 05:07 PM
Actually, those are recently updated blogs that my blogroll sees (www.blogroll.com). It knows it's been updated because the blog pinged weblogs.com or technorati to say they were updated. I don't know if blogger does that...but moveable type and typepad does it as part of the posting process if you set settings that way.
I think Blogger can do .rss feeds so that they can be read in a newsreader like Bloglines but you have to purposely set it to do that--and it might be bloggerplus that does it. I don't remember since I switched from blogger so long ago.
Posted by: crystal at February 14, 2004 09:27 AM