I’m going to do some quick posts about my RSS Feed and the blogs that are in it. But first, a little about The Feed itself.
What I like about the feed:
- All new posts in one place
- efficient!
- never miss anything
What I don’t like about the feed:
- lack of continuity
- comments disconnected from the post
- Have to make a trip to the blog to make a comment, so I don’t comment as much
The plusses outweigh the minusses, so I use the feed for most of my reading.
I use Google Reader. I’m going to make a project of finding a second reader for a second feed for Mormon blogs. I don’t want to mix my Mormon blogs in with my regular stuff, and I think it would make my MoBlogging more efficient (i.e., give me my life back).
So any of my three readers use an RSS feed? What do you use? How do you have it set up?
I swear by Google Reader.
I’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and it’s horrifying to think that there was a time that I actually used to “visit” websites
The horror!
Seriously though, I read all of my favorite sites via Google Reader…and when I want to comment, I just click through, and leave a comment. No problem.
I did have a friend of mine ask me about the format of his blog graphics recently, and I had to confess to him that I hadn’t noticed his layout changes, since I read it through RSS
I’m guessing that you have comments set to be approved prior to posting. Either that, or I just had an entire post that disappeared.
It’s early here…happy Saturday.
Matt, I have my blog set to automatically approve after you’ve had one comment approved already, but it works based on e-mail address. I wonder if you used a different one when you commented before?
After I wrote this post, I followed these instructions to set up multiple feeds. I put three separate reader gadgets on my home page, put all my feeds into one of three folders, and then assigned each folder to a separate gadget. It’s awesome.