Update: My feed appears to be back from vacation, so welcome back to those of you who rely on my old feed! Regarding that mess of posts that just popped up in your account…IT IS NOT MY FAULT! I don’t know what happened, but I am glad to have you back.
Since most of you read the feed that is autodetected, most of you probably won’t read this since it stopped working. Or maybe it went on vacation and is enjoying the fresh mountain air of Colorado. At any rate, I have no clue what is wrong. The only thing I know to do is unsubscribe and resubscribe to this feed which is working:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/zgvV
If anyone else knows why the feed would have neglected to update for several days, please let me know. I wonder if it effects other blogger blogs or if it is just me?
If you do not know what I am talking about, a “feed” or “rss feed” (real simple syndication) is a convenient means of reading many blogs quickly. Using a reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader, you can subscribe to multiple blogs and have their content delivered to one central location. Most will detect the feed by entering the url or clicking on the subscriber button found on many blogs (autodetect). I need to change my settings so that this will give you my working feed, but that involves editing my template.
Bloglines is nice in that it loads all the blogs on a single page. It is a bit slow while it pulls the feeds, but you can make yourself a cup of tea or coffee, and come back to read what you want. When I started reading more than a few feeds, however, I had a hard time with this. First, it took forever to load and second, my index finger got tired of scrolling.
Google Reader organizes your feeds into folders (well, you do this, but do take the time!) You click on a folder and get the headlines from everything in that folder along with the first line. Click on the headline and you get the full feed. Click on it again, and you go to the site. If you read a lot of blogs, or use your feed reader to keep up with news as well (as I do), I think Google Reader is better. It involves a little more clicking than Bloglines, but you do not have to scroll through a gazillion entries, either.
I do not really know what else is out there. What do you use?
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I use a reader called “Sage”. I use it as a FireFox extension, I’m not sure if it’s available outside of FF or not. It’s really simple. It brings up a list on the side of the screen, I tell it to check, and then it just highlights any blog names that have new content, so I can click through to whatever I feel like.
Thanks for the tip. I always learn new things here from feed readers to sex education. Amazing!
I will look into Google Reader. It would be nice to have a headline instead of just a list of new content.
That’s cool, IWBH. I use Firefox…I’m assuming that is what that little thing in my browser is that asks me to subscribe to feeds once in awhile.
Renae, anything to help!
I think you have to actually add Sage as an extension. Go to Tools, then Add Ons, then click Get Extensions. Do a quick search for Sage and it’ll take you right to it.
I would assume you are correct, Demeter. My hubby does all the downloading of stuff, so I really don’t know what I have. Kind of sad…I should take the time to figure it out!
It’s all Greek to me LOL I bookmark blogs I like and check them every few days
Well, I’m glad I appear to have made it into your bookmarks. : )
I actually prefer reading blogs that way (but through my sidebar). But at the moment, I read a few too many to do that with all of them!
Many blogspot blogs suffered from similar trouble over the last week. You are not alone.
Here I thought you just hadn’t gotten back to blogging after your trip. When my Google Reader had 9 posts for you this morning, I was a little surprised!
I guess next time the feed goes MIA for a while, I will have to check your blog the old fashioned way.
Glad to have you back, too, Charity! Now to catch up on everyone else’s. Well, that is a bit too daunting. Maybe just to check up on everyone else’s would be a more doable goal.