A Blog Secret
Occasionally I have people ask me about the blogs I read. I try to keep up on about 35-40 of them at any given time. I used to look at people who did that and think they were crazy - flipping back and forth from blog to blog… spending immense amounts of times simply figuring out whether people had updated their blogs or not (let alone reading them and occasionally responding). If that image pops into your mind, I have a little secret to share with you: People who follow a lot of blogs almost never go to the actual blogs they’re following. Yep - you read that correctly. If you want to follow more than one or two blogs, you need a blog reader.
A blog reader is a program where you make a list of all the blogs you want to follow and it checks them for you. In other words, I may follow 40 blogs at a time, but I do it by logging into a single program and it tells me the two or three that have posted new entries since I last checked. It’s a great concept. This way, the program remembers everything I’ve already read and keeps me up on anything new to check out.
If you don’t use one… get one. You’ll thank me for it some day.
I use Alesti. Why? Mostly because (1) it’s free (why pay for something if you don’t have to?), (2) it’s web-based (I can check my blogs at any computer and don’t have to download anything), and (3) it requires very little bandwith. It occasionally has trouble finding the “feed” for a blog, but I can usually figure it out. Besides, it’s incredibly web BASIC and even works well on the internet I have. As you many of you know, I live in “internet no man’s land” - high speed has not yet hit Dunningville. I’d love it… I’ve tried pretty much every option (outside of dish, which I’m not willing to pay for) but we live in a glorious dead-zone.
There are others besides Alesti, all you have to do is search for “blog aggregator,” “blog reader,” “feed reader” or something similar.
So there you have it… and internet public service announcement. You can thank me later 
Grace and Peace,
`tim
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