Friday, March 7, 2008

Too many blogs to keep track of?

For those who find keeping up with the 60+ blogs of your T560 classmates overwhelming, check out www.bloglines.com . Once you register at this site, you can add 'feeds' from blogger, or any other site that uses feeds (other blogging tools, news feeds, etc.). Then, you log in to bloglines and can view all of the posts by any (or all) of your feeds updated since the last time you logged in, or in a specific time period (last 6 hours, last week, all...). This is nice because you don't waste time clicking through a bunch of pages that haven't been updated. You can also search all of your feeds, and/or the rest of the web for key words, so if you want to see who else in the class has posted about neural nets, you search for 'neural nets' and it will list all the entries containing those keywords, reguardless of when the post was made. I used this search feature when I wanted to find a video one of you had posted, but I didn't remember who it was! If you want to view the actual blog site, or post a comment, the blog entry is hyperlinked to the actual site, so you can get there in one click. You can also mark entries to keep in your display, so you can see them as 'new' the next time you log in. It's a pretty helpful little gadget, in my humble opinion! And saves me a lot of frustration over tedium!

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