Bloglines - track subscriptions
Behind blogs exist both a powerful technology and an interesting communication behavior. Gradually I started to follow many people, magazines and partly business or professional blogs. It is far from a new phenomenon and it is not because blogs have evolved particularly in recent years.
The kick-off must have been in January when I decided to gather all the blogs I read around (when else I remembered them). The concept is simple: Instead of that I visit every site to see what has happened lately (as if I can remember when I was last on the page), then it has happened now to me directly.
Because Bloglines retrieves feeds / XML, so that presents different content sites on one page. I have chosen to sort the sites that I subscribe to, in different folders and read them according to interest. Specifically, this means eg. I for example. get new "posts" from 13 different sites within the literature. This applies to both the established as Literature Since , Section P and Airship , as well as currently less active solo writers Cicely Lolk Hjort and Martin Larsen.
One of the meanings have been that I have created my own news site with information that may be relevant to me. A sort of long tail of news. Especially on issues like 'web search' and 'emerging trends in Social Networking' I'm now demanded daily with the latest Shiite.
With 98 feeds daily spit up to 500 messages in my direction, it may be difficult to keep up with everything. But it certainly was not easy before. Quite the contrary. The advantages include easy access to news sources (somewhere and fast) and monitoring of blogs with low publishing rate.
Bloglines has a simple and usable interface, quick response time and allows for archiving of blogs. It uses I do if I need to read something I think looks interesting. Will I save a post I've read, I use del.icio.us . Bloglines has existed since 2003 and is called a feed aggregator (see Wikipedia ). Journalisten.dk have made an intro to how to get started.
A week's vacation may soon mean that I do not get through the many new posts. But I also have my bookmarks online, which I then select and read while the rest are marked "read" though I bestow them a thought. The next blog post on http://www.re-aktion.dk/ going to be about the sites I think are really interesting at the moment.
