A Great Waste of Time
It seems to take me more time every day to get around to posting. It’s not that I am procrastinating, or can’t think of anything to write about. It’s not even technical problems like yesterday.
A lot of people use RSS Feeds or one of the Social Bookmarking Services to see what is happening on their favorite Blogs and Websites. I do have some RSS feeds that I look at every day as well as T-rati et al.
What takes so long, even with the feedreaders and other ways of viewing previews of posts, is that I end up going to each individual blog anyway to read the full post. It doesn’t matter if it is delivered to my E-mail or my home page, I still feel like I’m missing something if I don’t visit the site itself.
I read interesting posts and sometimes feel the need to comment, which I can’t do from a Feedreader. Another thing that I find from the original post are any referral or reference links that just aren’t available on RSS or Bookmarks.
At this point I am looking for the Most Efficient Way to view all of the sites I like and waste the least amount of time. So far, I just glance at the headlines and see what I want to read first, and I Still go through my Favorites List. Pure waste of time? I hope not.
What I really need is for one of these great coders to write a plug-in or something to allow for browsing a list of Full Blogs and Websites I read daily on the original site with all of the options to interact.
Have you ever heard of such a Plug-in or option on any browser? I don’t mean a Favorites list, I mean a click Next and you get the next site on your list…
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I dunno if this is what you’re looking for, but Firefox (and I think IE7) have a Live Bookmark feature.. when you’re on a site, you can click the feed icon in the location bar and add a special type of bookmark.. it loads the last 5 or so articles in the rss feed, so you can go directly to the site instead of reading the post first in your feed reader.
There is also feed reading software (eg. Thunderbird) that let you view the actual web page instead of just the content.
Input by Jesse Skinner | September 8, 2006 @ 5:31 pm
Hey Jesse,
What I want is probably too simple. I just want to have a list of feeds that I can go straight through each blog/webpage one after the other in a list.
I don’t think you can do that with IE7 or Firefox. I’ll have to check out Thunderbird and see if it can do what I want.
Thanks for the advice.
Joe
Input by Joe | September 8, 2006 @ 10:07 pm
Hi Joe,
I can’t help with the plugin or any software to do the same thing. But regarding Thunderbird; I use it for my email. It’s more resilient than Outlook Express. For example, I first went to it when OE decided it couldn’t read my email files anymore. These were OE files. Not wanting to lose all my email, I tried Thunderbird. It recovered all the files, and hasn’t lost anything since, even when my computer has crashed, locked up, or otherwise was shut down improperly.
Input by Rick | September 8, 2006 @ 11:46 pm
Hey Rick,
I guess I should at least try that Thunderbird thing. I really haven’t had any problems with OE, but anything that works better and saves time is always worth checking out.
Thanks,
Joe
Input by Joe | September 9, 2006 @ 9:05 am
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