Thing #9~ More on Bloglines and RSS

Thing #9 challenged us to find more sites to add to the bloglines reading account and the blogroll should we choose to have one. Frankly, I didn't find many of the search tools they suggested very useful. I merely visited a bunch of my favorite websites and looked to see if they had RSS feeds available and then I snatched them up. I found everything from Leaky Cauldron (one of the Net's biggest Harry Potter news sites) to the ever-LOL-inducing ICanHasCheezburger.com to a really cool children's and YA SF/fantasy blog called Wands and Worlds to Merlin, of course, so yes, while I do see the use for the search tools, I didn't have to really rely heavily on them this time. So check out my new and improved and longer blogroll :-)

Thing #8 ~ Bloglines, RSS, etc.

::Points to the right:::

Look at my shiny blogroll!!! I'm so proud of it!

Bloglines is definitely a good way to make your blog a one stop shopping destination for everything you might want to read about. The blogs and sites I selected reflect my wide range of interests from sci-fi to music to cooking to libraries, of course, and a few laughs thrown in, too, with Dilbert and Unshelved. I love that I can always add or take away feeds and add just about any syndicated site. I even added a few feeds from our very own catalog and a horoscope too. If you're so inclined you an add your Yahoo or Google groups to Bloglines, too, if you don't want your inbox crowded with list mail. Very cool.

I also have my labels, or tags like the rest of the world calls them, listed and clickable on my blog now. I wanted a tag cloud but couldn't find any easy way to make one. Does anyone have any ideas?