Keeping up to date with blogs - how do you do it?

[Meagan]

Ok I am fairly technology savvy but keeping track of blogs seems to escape me. I think also I have been putting it off because I know it will become addictive.
What I want to know is how do you keep track of blogs you like other than just looking at them every now and then.
Does anyone use an iPad app to do this?
Looking forward to your responses

[Bonsai]

Hi Meagan

I try to subscribe to blogs via RSS or email so I get notified if there is a new posting - I dont follow many so it works for me. Once I get a notification about a new posting I can either go to the blog to look at it or ignore it if it doesn't interest me. I get emails from blogs such as Tenina and Superkitchenmachine and RSS from british larder, lobstersquad, kitchen playground and others. Saves me looking at blogs that haven't updated.

If I was trying to keep up with masses of blogs this might get tricky though......  I'm quite time poor (work fulltime plus family - as so many of us are!) so have to limit how many blogs I stalk!

[faffa_70]

I subscribe to RSS feed on my phone, generally read them while the kids are having swimming lessons or if I am caught waiting at the school, or cadet pick up etc. I ALWAYS have my iphone with me and that is the best way for me as I can just sneak in a couple minutes when ever I have them 

[Lexi]

How does RSS work??  I have same problem lol

[medusa]

Have you tried google reader, I find that really good.  You just add the blogs that you are interested in and then you can see if they are updated or not, and choose to read them if you like.  Once you read them they are marked off as read but if you don't you can read them at a later date.

[faffa_70]

I use google reader and sign into that through the rss feed app on my phone

[Meagan]

Ok can someone please tell me how the google reader and rss feeds work please. Do they notify you by email or what?? Lol total not understanding mode today!!

[tarosuma]

Meagan, I am so glad you asked that question as it has been bugging me for months!  I have signed up to blogs but don't seem to actually receive any notifications from them when they add stuff so I am struggling to work out how it all happens.
Hope this helps me too!   

[medusa]

well you have to sign up for a google account and then you log in, go to google.com/reader and add blogs.  then when you want to check them you go back to google.com/reader and view them from there.

[faffa_70]

I have been trying to get back to this thread all day 

once you have a google account, a lot of blogs actually have the follow button on them to add them to your google reader, otherwise they may have the RSS sign that you can get the feed link to and add it in your blog reader. I can't remember if you can have notifications or not as I would have them turned off anyway. I just check my reader weekly at swimming at the minimum 

Meagan if you have problems, bring your ipad to the next seminar lol and I will go through it and show you  I found it quite easy to do

[Lexi]

ok I'm going to try this. 

oi I hate change but I also hate haivng to remember to check blogs etc

[Lexi]

oh wow google reader is so easy!!!! Thank you!!!

Now to work out easier way to remember which FB pages to look up lol.  Newsfeed is too cluttered

[tarosuma]

Thanks for that info!  Now I will spend (waste!   ) even more time on the computer!

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I love google reader.  I spend much less time checking blogs for updates since I started adding them to my reader.

[faffa_70]

oh wow google reader is so easy!!!! Thank you!!!

Now to work out easier way to remember which FB pages to look up lol.  Newsfeed is too cluttered

I have pages I like on facebook so that I can find them when I want them, but if they are ones I only want to reference and not see the newsfeed for all the time, I just hide them from my newsfeed  when you want to find something on that page later just type it in the search box and it will show up first