Thing 30 - More Ways to use RSS and Delicious

I love RSS. It has made my life so much easier over the past year, I can't imagine living without it. I looked back at my posts from the first round of 23 things, and apparently I thought it was stalker-ish. Twitter is way worse, and I love that! My RSS is through Bloglines and I still find that easier to use than Google Reader. I check it at least once a day to make sure I don't get overloaded with posts. I don't really sort my RSS. I follow some other 23 things participants, and I do have those in a separate folder. And during primary season, I had all my political blogs in a separate folder (they were taking over). The others I just keep alphabetical.

I tried using the RSS locater. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but it didn't seem to come up with anything useful. I looked at some of the examples that were on the thing page, but none of them fit with what I use RSS for. If I lived in a city larger than Fargo, the Travel updates would probably be pretty cool.

Delicious. well.......... I haven't use it since last time. I tried to sign in and apparently didn't remember my password, so I had to set up a new account. Then I realized that I don't use bookmarks. I did in college, but haven't in years. So I didn't really know what to do. I'll check with some other people here in Moorhead and see what they use it for.

Thing 24: Refreshing your blog

I've been lazy since we finished the first round of 23 things; I haven't blogged at all. That's a lie - I did set up another blog with some people at work, but we failed at updating that one as well. Part of my problem is that I don't have anything interesting to say, so people won't read it. And if people aren't reading it, what's the point?

When I logged into my blog (for the first time in a long time) the template that I had before no longer worked. I'd been using one that I found through Pyzam and my guess is that it just became inactive or something. There were a couple other people who were using similar templates and there's didn't work anymore either. I picked one of the templates that Blogger had, but they were all boring, so I'm pretty sure I'll be spending some time looking through some fun sites to find a more interesting background.

I looked through some of the new Gadgets Blogger has added and most were ho-hum, except for the RSS feed!! That is an awesome update! This well make it much easier for people to keep track of when other people have updated their blogs. It'll make communication a lot easier.

I liked the way my avatar looked and I had the ultimate perfect background for it, so all I did was change my outfit. I'd played around with the Yahoo avatars a bit during the first round, so I was going to use one of the other sites, but none of them really caught my eye and you would've had to register with a new password. Since I already had one I could play with - I just stuck with what I knew.