#8 and #9... and getting ahead of myself

Ok, I admit that I already had a bloglines account. I wouldn't say I read it religiously by any means... sometimes it just sits there accumulating new posts and I sit there ignoring them. Click on this and you'll see why:

http://www.bloglines.com/public/SarahCornell

bad, bad Sarah. So many links, so little time. If you could see my view of my RSS feeds, you'd see 17 unread, 15 unread, 552 unread... it only gets worse.

Honestly though, I don't really think this is a problem. I use my RSS feeds as "ticklers" just to remember that I wanted to go back somewhere. If I find myself reading a really good blog post and I've never read that blog before, I'll subscribe to the feed pretty quickly and be able to go on my way - links to the last 10 or so posts will be "flagged" for me, right there in my feed list. I can go back whenever I want, I don't have to remember the URL or even the name of the blog. Later on I'll take a look a the posts and if I want to stay subscribed, I leave it there and wait for more content to be flagged for me. If I don't like it anymore, I can unsubscribe. It's really quite a convenient way to set up "signposts" for myself. Remember how revolutionary the favorites or bookmarks felt the first time you used a web browser? Just imagine, there's some computer out there, once an hour clicking on all those links for you and finding out if there's something new for you to see!

Regarding getting ahead of myself: I ran into an itsy bitsy problem when I tried to put my feed list on this blog as a blogroll. I signed up for Blogger under my IU email address, but I signed up for my Bloglines account under my personal yahoo account, since it's not for work. Apparently they don't play well together because the logins are different... oh well. I'm out of time again for the day, so I'm not about to change things around just to make them match up, even if it would mean you could see my feeds in a blogroll without clicking through to bloglines.

One more note - web software is changing all the time. Bloglines has upgraded really recently, so I'm sure some of these directions have changed since the tutorials were created... it's a sad fact that will probably frustrate people more than necessary!