I have been using blog aggregators more lately. Although I have been blogging for a while, I haven’t taken the time to learn a lot of the ins and outs of blogging. I still don’t use feeds, for instance (although I’m planning on getting started with that soon!).
Now that I have a little more time, I’m planning on getting a tad more familiar with the little extras of blogging.
Anyway, I recently joined the Dumb Ox Bloggregator and I love it. I have it in my sidebar right over there (to your right). I can just look over there and see what others are blogging about. I’ve linked up to a few who have been blogging about the same thing I was.
The Dumb Ox had a great idea for this new type of blogroll. You might want to think of joining. It’s really nice and a quick and easy way to keep up with what others are blogging.
thx for the heads up(ox).
ot- anyone ever complain about slow loading page?
Thanks for the plug, Beth! A note on rss feeds for your future reference, they can really slow down loading. The good news is that the Bloggregator (using “Newsgator”) loads very quickly! Much faster than usual rss feed readers that I’ve experimented with for headlines. On my own page, I will be looking to streamline, streamline, streamline over the coming days/weeks, since slow-loading almost always equals low readership as far as I can tell.
It’s terrific to have “Blue Star Chronicles” aboard, and perhaps your readers may be interested in putting the Bloggregator on their site, even if their blog may not be a “news” blog. I’ll still add them to my Ox and Oxette blogroll! And probably other Bloggregator members will extend that courtesy too.
All the best to you and to your fine readers!
D. Ox