Okay THAT is it. This is the SECOND time in less than two weeks that something has happened and I haven’t even known about it. I am sure all of you know about the “5 lessons learned” challenge started by Jon over at the Bronze Kettle. I read his. Read a couple of others and then promptly returned to my hole, because work is a dominatrix in wool, using a ruler.After writing my post tonight, I decided to read what everyone had been up to the last few weeks. When I got to Priestly Endeavors, guess what I found. Kirk, decided to pay me and GLDC a lovely comment. Then he ruined it by tagging me for the “5 lessons learned."
Okay, I think, I can do this. I started looking around to see what everyone else has written; I don’t want to repeat points and when I land on GMW, I saw she had tagged me on the 29th!
Both of them had tagged me and I didn’t even know. The guilt, the horror of it, is akin to walking into a presentation with your pants open and not realizing until after the meeting.
Why am I so upset? Not because of the mentions, even though they are awesome, but because they expect me to respond, and there has been nothing on my site for days. I hate letting people down. /crossed arms.
So that is it! I need a damn alarm that will vibrate on my person when something happens in the blogosphere I need to know about. This would have never happened if, in an IT raid, I hadn’t uninstalled Feedreader.
I need suggestions. What do you guys use to keep up with all the blogs you read? I tried Google Reader, but I didn’t like it. Feedreader was okay, but I wonder if there another desktop application that is better. I can not allow this to happen again. I am falling severely behind in my reading, and feel completely out of touch.
Help.
Now, I leave you to continue working on my "5 Lessons"
12 comments:
GLD Chick: glad to have you on the meme! To keep up with my favorite bloggers (you are among them) I subscribe to their RSS feed using my Google Reader. It also helps on Wordpress that you have a stat which shows which blogs have incoming links to your blog. (I can't remember if Blogger has that type of stat; it's been a long while.) So when someone links to my blog, I see a link to the ... uh, linking post. (Too many "links" there, I think.) I don't know how I could keep up with all the cool stuff I want to without my RSS reader, though. In fact, if a blog/site doesn't have an RSS feed I rarely remember to go back and check it out. Hope this helps.
I have no idea why Blogger posted me as anonymous above (9:38pm). I'm the Game Dame over at Wordpress, just so you know.
Dammmmn, that’s about a case and a half of wine…. how about some cheese with it. Wine, wine, wine, forget about your life and just play WOW and write on your blog, OK. GGGGGGG, HEHEHE!!!!!!
What the Game Dame said. Dunno what you didn't like about Google Reader: It's pretty non-obtrusive (unless you incorporate it on your Gmail home page), pretty effective (it has a few quirks that crop up now and again, but no showstoppers), and it's folder & tagging system is a very welcome touch.
Since the Game Dame already touted WordPress, I won't. At least, not now, not here. ;)
Oh shoot. The other thing is that you absolutely MUST subscribe to the feed of your own blog's comments. That way, you'll know when you get 'em. (That, and/or have your blog email you when a comment is received. WP does that exceptionally well.)
That's easy, you just need a Wifi Rabbit! :)
I just keep the blogs I read in my firefox toolbar bookmarks. Then again, I don't read a huge number of WoW blogs. I have my LJ friends page, link cut down to just show people instead of communities, this page, BRK, Squeaky Priesty, and one friend who doesn't blog on LJ.
I think I'm glad I don't try to maintain a full on WoW blog. =) I stopped doing my tuesday screeny posts ages ago.
Kestrel, shame on you for not reading. She doesn't LIKE those programs. sheesh. (grin).
Breana, I might have a program for you to try. Your email handler. Many of the current ones will handle RSS feeds. For example, a link to several ways to do it with Firefox can be found at http://mashable.com/2007/05/26/rss-firefox-guide/
Kirk
priestlyendeavors.wordpress.com
walking into a presentation with your pants open and not realizing until after the meeting.
Happened to me the other day. Only thing what saved me from complete embarrassed meltdown was the knowledge of what fine looking legs I got.
I uses Sage to keep track of me blogs what need reading. It's a Firefox plug-in (probably for other browsers too) and I find it pretty convenient. I also checks in at me Technorati.com page to see who be linking to me.
I use Bloglines. Comes with a handydandy bookmarklet (is that a word) as well.
Another way to do it is to use Firefox to keep track of your feeds.
Thanks guys for all your excellent suggestions. GLDC will be making the move to wordpress very soon and I have locked and loaded a new feedreader. Now I am just inputting all the blogs!
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