thank you Leigh
Thank you Leigh!
Leigh did a little live blogging thing the other day, and one of the slides showed her checking her blogs through iGoogle.com. I was intrigued so I went and checked it out, signed up for Google Reader and never looked back.
Seriously, don’t laugh. This has revolutionized my blog reading experience. Would you believe that up till now I’ve been doing this the old fashioned way, just clicking on individual links in my own blog side bar. In some cases (insert incredulous gasp) even painstakingly typing in the entire URL on my own. Am I lame or what?
I tried Bloglines before, but the flow and layout of it never really worked for me. This Google Reader thing just makes it all so easy. I just added my subscriptions, and now when I log in all the updated blogs are just sitting there and waiting for me, all orderly and well-behaved-like. When I read one it, quite properly, removes itself to the back of the line until it’s got something new to show me. No more obsessive checking and re-checking for updates, no more stalking my favorites waiting for new posts. I just sit back and let them all come to me baby.
I’ve already subscribed to 77 blogs (combo of mommy blogs, photoblogs and birth blogs - summing up my life and interests quite nicely) and now I can keep up with all of them on a daily basis.
I’m in blog bliss right now, I tell you.
PS: It’s almost 1030, and Bella is still awake. You know what is keeping her up tonight? One lone-f’ing-phantom-bastard-buzzing mosquito. Apparently, the goal of its short, pathetic life is to single handedly drive me insane. The damn thing has been surviving my increasingly desperate attempts to squash it into oblivion, and the freaking incessant buzzing has Bella so paranoid that she is lying in bed with her eyes wide open, spasmodically jerking this way and that whenever she hears the thing. I’m beginning to feel a little irrational about the thing myself. Wish me luck.
You are oh so welcome. I’m glad I could help you revolutionalize a lil’ piece of your life.
Comment by Leigh — 08.26.07 @ 8:09:38
Oh my gosh, I would not be able to keep up with my ridiculous blogroll without google reader. I am so much better at actually making comments now. Revolutionary!
Comment by radical mama — 08.26.07 @ 3:08:26
i have no idea what you people do or what you are talking about. google reader? bloglines? huh? what ever happened to the good old fashioned internet.
mb
Comment by marybeth — 08.27.07 @ 4:02:31
Going to go check out the Google blog thing right now. And I am SO sorry about that damn mosquito. I got a teeny chuckle out of your description of it, though. Couldn’t help myself!!
If I haven’t said it yet, it is SOOOO good to have you back and blogging again. Love love love it. Mwah!!
Comment by Rebekah — 08.29.07 @ 12:30:27
I just recently discovered feeds. Well, I knew they excited before, but not how to utilize them. So I know exactly how you feel! I’m going to go check out Google Reader right now.
Comment by Linda — 08.29.07 @ 3:29:18
I love my Gmail and had no idea there was a Google Reader. I don’t read many blogs because I found it so time consuming. Now I am going to find more to read because this will make it so much easier! Thanks Jeanette! Love reading your blog.
Comment by Pepper — 09.04.07 @ 7:33:41
I found the blog reader at iGoogle a few months ago and it also revolutionized my blogging life. I am probably subscribed to as many as you are.
Comment by Christy — 09.19.07 @ 10:08:36