If you’re anything like me then you probably follow a lot of blogs, I certainly have a whole set of blogs that I keep up with on a regular basis. So I thought it might make an interesting discussion to find out how people keep up with the blogs that they follow.
Personally I have tried many different ways of keeping tracks of blog feeds, lots of different online services and also windows applications. However I have now settled on Googles iGoogle home page to track them. It has a nice clear interface that allows me to track up to around 12 blogs easily on one tab, (1280 x 1024 monitor) and I can use as many tabs as I need. It’s nice and quick to load and I can use it anywhere once I log in.
It also becomes very easy to subscribe to a new blog if you also have the google toolbar, because you get a nice subscribe button on the toolbar that will automatically add it to your homepage. Below is a sample of my current google homepage.
So how do you track your blogs, feel free to post a comment and let me know.
My blog is mainly about programming in .Net 2, website promotion and affiliate marketing although I do have the odd ramble on about anything that comes to mind.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Now you mention that you use iGoogle to keep track of Blogs via their RSS Feeds. What addon for iGoogle are you using to do that? The Google Reader (reader labs or something)??
Do you find it slow to update? I’ve heard some people say its slow to update the feeds on their lists I personally use RSS Bandit to keep tabs on the various feeds I’ve subscribed to or I’ve memorized their URL and use that to visit them on rotational basis.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Hi,
I don’t actually use any add-ons, I use it through the custom google home page. I tend to do all my browsing through Firefox so I just set my iGoogle home as my home page for firefox. I tend to only check my feeds at set times of the day so this works perfectly for me.
I can’t say that I’ve experienced any slow update issues with it.