Blogging, etc...

"Blog like never before," indeed...

Actually I have been blogging, just not here. Please visit Random Truths at Bloglines.

The Bloglines setup has worked much better for me, so that's why I'm using it, despite its shortcomings (no nice looking templates, no real customization at all, no comments, weak post-entry UI).

I've been using an RSS aggregator for some time - Sharpreader was my original choice. The problem was I read blogs from various computers spread across the planet and it was difficult to keep different copies of Sharpreader synched. I always had a somewhat different list of blogs depending on where I was sitting. Also, I'd sift through a lot of posts I'd already seen, so there was hassle involved in just finding the point where I'd left off.

Bloglines solved all that. No matter where I am, I can pick up where I left off, and if I add a blog at home, for example, it shows up at work (not that I read blogs while I'm at work, of course...this is a purely hypothetical example).

Bloglines makes it easy to blog posts you're viewing. I'm more of a 'linker' than a 'thinker' anyway, so it's a good fit.

However, now that I'm using Firefox, I can probably find some cool Blogspot plugin that will allow me to merge Bloglines ease-of-use posting with the robust feature set of Blogger. And when that happens, I will truly blog like a man on fire (which is to say, not much, due to the fire and all). 

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