How many blogs to you subscribe to and read regularly?Please take the poll on my right sidebar. I'll keep it up for a week to see how my 40 compare with other readers'.
And leave me a comment about which feeder (if any) you use (Google Reader, Bloglines, etc) and if you're happy with your method. I'd like to know more about what's out there.
17 comments:
I read 185. Sick I know. A big chunk is for Mel and being a clicker. I use Google Reader. LOVE IT!!!
Half of my blog reading happens on livejournal which while can be put in a feed reader like google or bloglines, I would miss out on a good deal of posts that are locked to friends or members. The other half are read through bloglines.
I use bloglines. Its just the first one I tried. It works for me. My 56 should probably be pared down, and a couple substitutions need to be made. Hope that helps!
Whoa! Sunny - 185? Impressive. I thought I was bad with 82! Of course, not everyone posts on the same day so I manage somehow to get around and I don't comment on every post...I use a tool we developed y a young coder in our office. It's called The Persona Bee. It's freely available on the Internet for customization - mine is http://www.personalbee.com/923. The tool allows me to subscribe and keep track not of blogs not unlike Bloglines. I prefer the layout on the Bee, and other people can subscribe to it, too.
I'm at 35 subscriptions right now, but I tend to add 1 or 2 a month.
I use & like Google Reader. Was the first one I tried, and the only complaint I have is that a couple of my subscriptions don't show the updates. I don't know if its something I did or didn't do (quite possible), if its a glitch in their system, or if its something to do with the specific blog. But, since it's only a couple, I go check them manually.
122 blogs. Wow. I am subscribed to 122 blogs. No wonder Mr. W says I'm always "blogging" (which to him means reading and/or writing blogs). Of course all my reading leaves me much less time for commenting. :-(
I love Google Reader. I used bloglines for a while, but it takes a couple of hours to update and it kept on screwing up. Hooray Google!
I didn't count how many I currently subscribe to, but I think I visit about 40 or so pretty regularly. I also didn't count the International adoptions I "click" on for Mel. Fortunately, many of them are pretty quiet.
I do feel overwhelmed and don't feel like I keep up well enough. I am interested in the . . .probably 100 or so I subscribe too, but wonder if I spend to much time in infertility land.
Sometimes I wonder if I should get it down to a more manageable level . . . and then I want to read the Creme de la Creme posts and suspect there will be other peoples stories I would like to keep track of.
I am interested it hear how other people do it.
In my defense I read a lot of food blogs and celebrity gossip blogs along with adoption/infertility/etc blogs. Not sure that's a defense but...
Bloglines has me currently at 312 subscribed blogs. But some are no longer posting.
I do like Bloglines fwiw but it has made me a lazy commenter.
Scary picture! I don't even think it's fair to answer this question :-) I think I'm currently subscribed to 1092 blogs. There are some I read daily, others I read weekly, but I click through the others at some point over the course of the month. Isn't that scary?
But I actually have my dailies bookmarked and work off of that rather than reading through bloglines. I've never really figured out how to read through bloglines.
I read about 80, with google reader. I just hate the font that bloglines has, for no good reason at all.
J
Ummm... you don't have a category for "zero" or "what's a blog reader?" lol. I'm fairly new to blogging (not to mention a generation older than some of you, I'm sure) & all the talk about blog readers & feeds, etc. gets me feeling queasy. I probably have about 40 bookmarked & some I visit more regularly than others. I've also piggybacked on Pamela Jeanne's blogreader a few times & enjoyed that (thanks, PJ!).
I use Google Reader, and am happy with it so far.
I read about a zillion blogs. I used to use bloglines, but, sadly, it deleted all my subscriptions for a week or so. They eventually reappeared, but by that time I'd switched to google reader.
Ok, ladies. You have made me feel like a total luddite. I check around 50 blogs regularly, but I rely mostly on Mel and my own blogroll (and of course, one can always get sucked into someone else's blogroll and then someone else's and then....)
Funny how I use Google Reader for every other feed, but not my IF ones. I had been considering bloglines just in case internet access at work tightens, but haven't done a darn thing about it yet.
I think I've just found my afternoon project. Great convo Lori!
I used to just click on my own blog's blog roll then I signed up for bloglines and while I like it, it has also gotten out of control. I can't read all those that I have subcribed to. I used it as more of a bookmark (there are over 100) but now I'd feel bad about "un"subscribing.
I read maybe 30+ regulary and then a bunch more sporatically.
218 Blogs...all managed in google reader. I like it a lot more than bloglines, just for the interface and features.
Well...the comments here have given me enough for a whole 'nuther post.
Thanks, bloggers!
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