Bloglines

Whoa, whoa, WHOA! Adding feeds is an addictive (yet very fun!) thing to do. I just experimented with Bloglines and before I knew it, I had subscribed to 25 feeds! I think what did it is the listing given when you register, that gives you the opportunity to sign up for a bundle of feeds based on your interests. Shopping? Sure! Dogs? Why not? Bookworms? That's me. And before I knew it, my first step when activating my Bloglines account was to clean out and trash some of the feeds. I wonder if this sheds any insight into why I find myself constantly waging an uphill battle against the clutter in my house... :)

As I sorted through some of these pre-bundled feeds, I realized that while this service may be convenient, upon further inspection, the feeds weren't exactly what I thought they would be. I appreciate efforts to make life easier by making these suggestions, but it may have been more helpful to include annotations of some kind with the feeds in the pre-bundled packages. At first, I also stumbled when trying to link the feeds that had the little orange box icon to Bloglines. I knew I needed to link them to my blog, and that I didn't want to organize them in the default Microsoft folder from my browser. It took me a few tries to figure this out, but now I am more confident and I'm gearing up to become a feed-subscribing fiend :)

Anyways, here is the link to my Bloglines account ( I hope this works!):
http://www.bloglines.com/public/mesnyder