Thing # 8 Just a Little Bit Late: RSS Feeds

Bloglines, where have you been all my life? I can't believe how easy you make it to keep up with eighty different sites without a lot of clicking and checking and waiting to load! You're easy to set up, you recognize me when I return without making me sign in, you don't have any ads.

I love you unconditionally! Your name could be more euphonious, but one can't have everything. (Where would you put it?)
I can make folders, you say? So my list of eighty-plus sites can be orderly.

And that's just a fraction of what Bloglines can do, it seems. There's a nifty search function that lets you search for words and phrases anywhere, or only in your own feeds, and it's sortable by date, so you can track the latest mention of, say, "Queens Library" in a host of library blogs.

And not to forget Thing Number 9: Some library-related blogs I find very informative, useful and enlightening include the incomparable Jessamyn West, and the Librarian in Black.