How do you read this blog?
For years, I invariably read blogs by visiting the actual site. Then, about a year ago, I discovered Google Reader and have switched all my blog reading over to their convenient RSS reader. I presently subscribe to 53 blogs there; that would be an insane number to try to visit on a daily basis, especially since many of them are only updated occasionally.
How do you read this blog? And, while we’re at it, how many other blogs do you read on a regular basis?
Comment by steven (May 11, 2009, 7:21 am)
I read these blogs by visiting each site and just bookmarking my favorites.
However, i did not know about google reader. Sounds great, i may just have to switch over
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Comment by Diana (May 11, 2009, 8:28 am)
I do it the old fashioned way, too! I have about 20 or so SG sites that I visit using bookmarks/favorites. I don’t read all of them every day but I do go to most of them. You make the Google reader sound pretty good, Daniel, so I may check it out, too!
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Comment by Daniel J. Mount (May 11, 2009, 8:30 am)
It is pretty good–especially if you have favorite blogs (say Gerald Wolfe’s), where there are rarely new posts, but you want to catch a new post when it comes up. In my experience, Google Reader doesn’t take much longer than maybe 5 or 10 minutes to refresh with new stories.
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Comment by Eric (May 11, 2009, 8:32 am)
I use Outlook ‘07 to import the RSS…they come in like an email.
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Comment by JayTee (May 11, 2009, 8:41 am)
For the six to 10 blogs I read regularly, I’ve been going to the actual Web site locations.
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Comment by Amy Rogers (May 11, 2009, 10:21 am)
Yeah, actual website. I have this one (plus the comments feed), two personal ones from forums folk, and Debbie Bennett’s on a toolbar in Firefox. I can check using the drop-down menu. Of course it wouldn’t work for 53!
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Comment by Amy Rogers (May 11, 2009, 10:22 am)
As I’ve mentioned, I used to use Yahoo email’s RSS feed, but they said hardly anyone used it and they discontinued it.
That frustrated me; it was really convenient!
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Comment by Daniel J. Mount (May 11, 2009, 10:24 am)
Amy, have you considered trying Google Reader? There’s nothing to make you keep using it if you try it and don’t like it!
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Comment by Chris Unthank (May 11, 2009, 11:02 am)
I’m old fashioned – I like to go to the actual website. However, I only read three blogs regularly – this one, David Bruce Murray’s, and TheMovieBlog.com.
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Comment by Amy Rogers (May 11, 2009, 11:03 am)
This post is the first I ever heard of it, but I might try it out!
This week I’m keeping my life to a minimum, I hope, besides finishing up a 10-page paper I received an extension on before graduation, playing the piano for our revival every night, packing and preparing, and – oh, yeah, leaving at 7 am Friday morning.
I decided to leave my laptop at home, so my internet access is not going to be all day every day as usual. I’m actually looking forward to it! (And I think it would be that way whether I took the laptop or not.)
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Comment by Samuel (May 11, 2009, 11:32 am)
I usually check this one only since it is updated almost daily. I’ll check Gerald Wolfe’s and Nathan Prisk’s blogs occasionally.
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Comment by Stacey Murphy (May 11, 2009, 12:02 pm)
Google Reader works well for me keeping up with a large number (48) of feeds.
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Comment by LeviSJ (May 11, 2009, 12:09 pm)
I let my fingers do the walking: they know all of the urls by (their figurative) hearts. I check 5 typically just by going straight to the website, although I am subscribed to email updates from your blog in case I’m gone for a few days.
I use Google reader, but I tend to forget that it is there.
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Comment by Susan Unthank (May 11, 2009, 12:27 pm)
Well, being the social networker that I am LOL–I use RSS feeds anytime they are available. On SGN we offer RSS feeds and we offer email updates either weekly or daily.
Personally, I use a program (Mac only) that pulls in Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds. For the feeds it pulls in a short summary, and if it’s something I want to read I click on the link and it opens the page in my browser so I then read the entire article on the website.
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Comment by JR (May 11, 2009, 1:47 pm)
I use RSS on my Opera browser. Opera remembers the websites you were on before you close the program, so you can get right back to where you left off.
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Comment by KYle (May 11, 2009, 2:18 pm)
I use Google Homepage and have all my RSS feeds categorized. I have a Music tab, a Movies tab, an “Others” tab, and a News Feed. Yes, I AM a geek!! That way, I get the headlines as links to those posts, but I go to the actual site to read the post itself.
Basically, I have a list of post titles, and if I wanna read it, I’ll click on it, and I’ll go directly to that post on the site. If I don’t wanna read it (and I’ll leave those posts to the imagination), I won’t click on them.
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Comment by Revpaul (May 11, 2009, 3:12 pm)
I use Firefox toolbar which holds about 20 blogs (if you abbrev. the names) so first thing every morning, click, and there you are!
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Comment by Casey (May 11, 2009, 5:29 pm)
I get this one through email, and I only read one other regularly, and I go to the website for it (www.tenthavenuenorth.com)
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Comment by gaithergirl (May 11, 2009, 6:15 pm)
I like the old fashioned way too. I visit the actual website! You are the ONLY blog I visit daily, because you are so wonderful to update so often! We appreciate you, Daniel!
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Comment by Amy Rogers (May 11, 2009, 6:33 pm)
“The old-fashioned way.”
How is it that we think that way now?
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Comment by Daniel J. Mount (May 11, 2009, 10:48 pm)
#20 – Amy, yes, that is funny!
gaithergirl and all the others, thank you so much for your kind words!
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Comment by J. Johnson (May 12, 2009, 5:15 am)
I go directly to the blogs’ homepages of those that I visit daily – about 20. This is the only SG blog I visit regularly – the rest are “mommy blogs,” although I do occasionally visit other SG blogs.
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Comment by Martha (May 12, 2009, 8:14 am)
For this blogs and the few others I read regularly (or semi-regulary!
) I go directly to the web site. 
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Comment by MattPaasch (May 12, 2009, 9:02 am)
Thanks for the idea Daniel! I heard about Google Reader, but never tried it out. I can now read blogs that are blocked at my place of work (Blogger/blogspot)!
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Comment by Daniel J. Mount (May 12, 2009, 9:09 am)
Now that’s cool!
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Comment by JLS (May 12, 2009, 10:02 am)
Usually in google reader but on my phone at the moment.
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Comment by David Bruce Murray (May 13, 2009, 9:45 am)
I use a program called Sharpreader…may have to check out Google, though, if it allows feeds to be categorized. That would be nice.
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Comment by Janet B (May 13, 2009, 12:53 pm)
I go to Enlighten’s site (sogoradio.com) & check the News & Views tab. If anything big is going on, it’s usually there.
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Comment by Daniel J. Mount (May 13, 2009, 10:10 pm)
Google does allow feeds to be categorized, and that is nice!
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