I’m getting ready for school next week, and I’m accepting the fact that my time online will be cut back again. This is forcing me to look at my surfing habits again – there is only so much time in the day, you know? So I am going back to my trusty RSS feeds. I love using NewsGator Online. Love, love, love it. The interface is pretty. If I accidentally click on a feed, I don’t have to worry about it marking it as read if I’m not done with it. I can access it from any computer, which is important since I use 2-3 different ones. I have my “Subscribe to Newsfeed” bookmarklet, so it is easy to subscribe to anything. I have folders set up for News, Friendblogs, Geekblogs, Knitblogs, and Photoblogs.
I need to finish converting everyone to using my FeedBurner feed, so if you read me via an RSS reader, can you switch your subscription over to this one?
I’ll miss seeing the pretty site designs, but it is much easier to zoom through the feeds. I’ll try to comment as much as I can still. That is the one bad thing about feeds – people forget to go and comment. Hey! You! Reading this on a feedreader! Come here and comment every once in awhile, ok? (It is the Internet equivalent of being told that you never call your mother, isn’t it?)
13 replies on “Mmmm… Feed Me…”
I am with you – the design of the sites are nice – but ultimately it is the content that counts.
Ok, so what’s the draw for a feedburner feed? I don’t get it. I did switch to your new feed though.
And I still comment even though I read most of my blogs via bloglines. And still cuss those people who have partial feeds. 😉
comment comment comment! 😉
When you leave a comment you get to visit and see the pretty designs so you won’t totally miss out!
switched! 🙂 (what’s the dealio with doing it that way?)
*waves* I’m a guilty feed-reader. I still try to comment as much as I can though. 🙂 Must go check out NewsGator. I’m not thrilled with bloglines, but don’t feel like moving all of my feeds somewhere else. Ya know?
Yes, ma’m. I’ll never forget to comment again.
But you did call tonight! Thanks…
Am I blocked from making comments????
Feedburner “converts” my feed into whatever format you need. Also, if I should ever redesign or rearrange my site, as long as I tell FeedBurner where to get it from you will never have to change your links.
Mom, all of my comments are going into a “moderated” mode right now and I can’t seem to fix whatever is causing it. On a positive note, spam comments aren’t getting through. Oh, and I didn’t mean you say I never call. I meant it more in the joke way, like moms complain when their kids go to college they never call. Heck, not only do I call you – I answer when you call! 😀
I thought I switched my feed a while back, but I guess I didn’t. It’s switched now. I love newsgator online also, but I switched back to bloglines because I found it faster than Newsgator. When you read close to 500 blogs like me every second saved counts.
I’ve been rolling both feeds for a while, mainly because I never knew when the other might shut down. Maybe an htaccess redirect from the old to the new is in order??
And three cheers for NewsGator online – it rocks!!!
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