I used to save favorite blogs in my browser’s “Favorites”. When I first had my own site (before I started blogging), I started listing them on the right-hand side of my web page. Then I could just go to my own site and click on whomever I wanted to visit. I continued that method for quite a while.
Now I use Google Reader, as I was finding more and more blogs I wanted to follow, and I didn’t want to fill up so much of my web page with this list. Plus, it was a little bit cumbersome to keep editing my own list when I found someone new I wanted to follow.
I LOVE Google Reader. In case you don’t know how it works, it notifies me when there’s a new entry on one of the blogs I’m following. I don’t waste time checking each site each day when obviously not everyone posts every day, but there are others who sometimes post several times a day. Using a feed like Google Reader is so efficient. (There are also other services you can use — I just happen to be familiar with Reader.)
I realize a lot of blogs are on Blogger, and I believe you are able to select other blogs that you want to follow through Blogger. I’m not sure how that works, but I assume it works well. (And maybe you can only select blogs to follow that are on Blogger also?)
I confess to following 35 blogs, which sounds like a lot, but remember, not everybody posts every day! (And I know a number of people watch WAY more blogs than 35!)
So the Questions of the Day: How many blogs do you regularly follow, what method do you use to keep track of them, and how does that work out for you?
–Sue
