Thing 8: Using RSS and Feed Agregators
When I first started using a feed aggregator a couple of years ago, I started out with Bloglines. But, I have since migrated to the Google version of Bloglines: Google Reader. I like the interface better, and I like how it’s integrated with other Google products. Matt Cutts has a nice comparisson of Bloglines and Google Reader on his blog, if you want to know more about what the differences are. You can also take a look at my feeds here, or grab the feed here.
I find that, when I find a blog that I really like, I usually put it in Google Reader, but I also put it in my Firefox feeds. Most of the time, I actually access my feeds via Firefox, because I quickly skim the headlines from the browser window I already have open, without having to stop what I’m doing. (The disadvantage to this is that you can only skim headlines in Firefox–if you want the whole article, you have to go to the page.) But I also add the blogs I read all the time to Google Reader, so I can have them on the go.