You Really Need a Reader
19 June 2008I subscribe to feeds for 63 different news, blogs and entertainment sites. The breakdown is as follows:
IVF blogs: 35 feeds
Reality News: 8 feeds
News News: 4 feeds
Friends and Family: 16 feeds
I would have to be crazy (or have way too much time on my hands) to go to 63 sites every day to check for updates. So I use Google Reader to keep track of the happenings out in the world. I let Google go out and check for updates to all the web sites I read regularly and it will let me know when a new blog or article has been posted.
The great thing is that almost every site these days publish feeds of their material. A feed is generally the title along with a snippet of text, or the full text, of the published article. It will include clickable links which will take you directly to the original source.
There are so many feed readers these days. Feed support is even built into the browsers these days (Internet Explorer 7, Safari, Firefox). Just look for this little icon: 
If you regularly read blogs or look at news sites, you have to use a feed reader. It just makes web surfing that much easier.