Blog Readers

Okay...okay. I skipped the Flickr sections, but I intend to work on those later. For some reason the whole Flickr thing seems to demand more concentration.

I've worked with blog subscriptions before in my Information Storage and Retrieval class in fall of 2008, but I haven't done too much with my subscriptions since the class ended. I wonder.... how do people keep up with their blog reading. I understand that the Reader is supposed to be a tool to facilitate management of blog reading, but I can't seem to check the Reader on a regular basis. Does everyone have that problem?

I learned some new things while working on the Reader Thing for NTRLS. This was my first time to use the folder option to organize my subscriptions. Nifty! No doubt if I do more exploring I will find other tools of interest.

I really do like Reader. I also think I should use it more often, but it does compete with my book reading time. Since books are in front of my face all day long and at home I never forget about their presence. Perhaps I should wear a rubber band around my arm to remind myself about my blog reader. It seems that when I do read my subscriptions I am in a hurry and often my attention is not focused. I guess that's the benefit of the blog format of short bursts of information.

If I think of this as similar to receiving a magazine subscription it becomes even more exciting. That's one of the appeals of 2.0.... information comes to me.