Week 4: Things 8 & 9

Apparently, I'm a little behind. As I realized that I'm giving birth in less than 10 weeks and I have quite a bit to do and read and prepare, I let this Web 2.0 business slip to the back of the line. However, it's time to get back to work. I'm so glad it's February break and I've had time to play/catch up!

First of all, I explored Bloglines weeks ago, but I was interested in creating a start page through PageFlakes. It has its own reader, but I can also add a Google Reader or Bloglines link to my start page. I decided, after much deliberation, to just create the Bloglines account and figure out the PageFlakes reader later.

Finding blogs for the feed was fairly easy. I have quite a few in my del.icio.us account. Now I can have feeds delivered much more efficiently. I always meant to do this! I also used Edublogs to find a few. However, Bloglines froze on me several times as I tried to add feeds. I became increasingly frustrated and only have 5 out of ... I don't know ... a dozen choices. Now that I have the account, I will be able to add feeds directly as I find useful ones, instead of adding more cumbersome more bookmarks. This should be a huge timesaver...and I may actually read the posts more regularly.