Introducing blogs, RSS
November 3rd, 2005Author: DialogueMedia
One of the first questions that I’m asked by someone I’m giving a short and sweet intro or lesson on blogs is: Where do I find them? To me, it’s kind of a funny question, but that’s just because I’m “in” the community and see them as being everywhere – probably in the same way that people in advertising notice the eyes on characters on cereal boxes looking downwards when walking down that aisle of the grocery store – so it’s not a silly question at all. Sure, there are a ton of them, but how would you explain the easiest way to find blogs to someone? Would you show them Technorati? Would you send them to Blogger.com? There are probably a million answers, and I have a few tips I usually pass along on my own. Howabout you, what do you folks do to recommend a starting point for people interested in blogs?
Similarly, many of us who read a lot of blogs know how to use a lot of the tools, but sometimes get stuck reading within the same space of the blogs we read and the blogs that our favorite bloggers read. How to get through all the clutter? Those of us with a ton of RSS feeds will tell you that just covering those on a daily basis is a task in itself, so even though there’s a need to find more, it’s not always so simple. So when a neat feature appears within something we’re already using (i.e. Bloglines, My Yahoo!, or an RSS reader), it makes it that much better and time-saving. That’s why I’m psyched about the new feature that Nick Bradbury is saying will be included in the next version of FeedDemon – the ability to find RSS feeds for certain topics. Obviously it’s a super simple way for those “new to RSS” as Nick calls them, but should also serve a solid purpose for those of us who might be a bit time constrained given all the things we’re already reading.
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