One of the things that I can say about blogs is that I read many more of them now than I did 12 months ago. There are a number of blogs that I monitor via an RSS reader. I have one running on my computer at work, and another on my computer at home. I use the one at work to follow “educational” blogs but the list that I have in there is fast becoming too long for me ever to go through. So I also have some Google Alerts running for keywords such as “education blog”. I use the RSS reader on my home computer to monitor blogs related to my other great passion - crime fiction.
The blogs that I see are really only a tiny flake on an enormous iceberg, but reading them does bring new ideas and information to my doorstep. But I can’t help wondering how long the current proliferation of blogs can go on. Certainly I’m beginning to feel the need for a new tool to help me monitor them. My current RSS reader presents the new postings blog by blog.
I am aware that there are tools out there that will present the new postings differently - chronologically, as they are published, in a sort of mash up like a set of headlines - but I just haven’t got around to investigating that yet. So I’m open to suggestion. Perhaps if you read this and can point me in the direction of a good tool, you can make a comment.
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Have you tried google reader? that presents the blog entires as they are written.
I have RSS Reader installed on my computers Sarah, and I have page flakes, and Google/ig pages. Someone told they monitored 160 blogs - that would make my head hurt!
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