Mission Find the Feed

I have to say that going through the RSS feeds proved to be easier than I thought it was. I have a co-worker to thank for that. I used topix.net which I didn't think I would like. I was against it maninly because of the homescreen. If I go to a search engine online and its really crowded with photos and news and...just plain old information, I get really overwhelmed. I thought the same thing would happen at topiz.net so I went straight to the search bar on their page. That did wonders. It took about two seconds for a screen to come up with a really cool graph above it. Turns out the graph shows the most recent articles that they have on whatever topic you're looking for and you can choose how far on the graph you want to go forwards or backwords. I found a feed really quickly about a librarian who was posting his personal choices for the best books, magazines, etc. of the year. It was the first blog that I subscribed to on my google reader. This is where the co-worker came in. I had trouble remembering how to get the blog over to my google reader. My co-worker came over and showed me the simplest way of copying and pasting the blog's URL onto the reader and wah-lah! I had an RSS feed that I subscribed to and a pretty cool one at that. I can't say that my search of the other engines was too extensive though; I'm like that. When I find something that works really well for me, I tend to stick with it. But I really did end up liking topix.net and I would very much like to explore it in more detail. I did try some of the other ones. I think I tried feedster.com but I didn't like it as much. It was more confusing for me to use the search engine on their site. So lessons learned this week: never judge a search engine by its cover and there are some really cool blogs out there.