Thursday, July 08, 2004

Big changes at Bloglines! My favorite feed reader, Bloglines, celebrated its first birthday this week with a new interface, new features and a very tempting offer. The temptation being offered is a free public blog with a "Blog This!" type feature in the feed reader. Never having used Blogger, I can't say whether it's as simple as that tool. At first glance, it works pretty much like the Radio feature, but I don't really like how Radio does it. What the Bloglines tool has going for it is that I have many more feeds there (more than I'll ever have time for, but that's another story) and I can blog wherever I am (work, Linux side, Windows side, in the library). So here's what I'm thinking (though I haven't firmly decided): "Notes from the Metaverse" will move over to Bloglines and feature quick-hit links-and-commentary (or vice versa) on all sorts of topics. This Radio blog will either become more exclusively tech-oriented, or more exclusively politics-oriented, and generally feature longer, Searls-style, essays. New title to be determined. The blog over at Opera, which was supposed to be more political, but has such a clunky links interface, may become more of a personal journal (which is what it's supposed to be). Probably nothing going to happen before July 19, my next book deadline. But be forewarned! 10:10:17 PM    comment []