I set up my Bloglines Account. I chose to enter mostly news, political, library, music and book review feeds- my primary areas of interest. I think this will come in most handy! I have all the sites I visit most frequently and all in one place.
For the rest of this assignment, I reviewed a few other RSS Feeds. As a political junkie, I am partial to newsfeeds. Two newsfeeds I reviewed as part of this assignment were Technorati http://www.technorati.com/ & Topix http://www.topix.net/ .
Of the two, I preferred the layout of Technorati. Visually, Technorati appears less cluttered than Topix. Technorati's design provides tab selection of categories such as Politics, Business, etc. contributing to a more streamlined appearance. The Blog tab directs the user to a fairly extensive Blog Directory, which is divided among other categories, as well. Blogger Central directs the user to the "What's Percolating in Blogs Now" feature, which includes subcategories: Blogosphere 2008, Top 100 Blogs, Watchlists, among others. Technorati won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.[2] It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.[3]
Technorati is a newsfeed I plan on revisiting and using.
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