Comments on: How often do you read other blogs?

By: Khuram Malik

Khuram Malik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:17:53 +0000

OK. Well great tip nonetheless ;-)

By: Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:13:01 +0000

Hmm, I don’t know of a default way of doing it, I guess you could always subscribe to your favourites rss feed and search that with your rss reader. (http://twitter.com/favorites/USERNAME.rss) But that’s a bit long winded, the favourites system isn’t really a fully featured bookmarking system (yet?)

By: Khuram Malik

Khuram Malik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:54:49 +0000

Yeah. Delicious hasnt really worked for me, as a day to day bookmark manager. Its great for keeping those links that you know you might need to share a few months down the line etc.

You know like “top 10 wordpress themes”. You can never find those links when you desperately need a theme.

Twitter faves for blog posts sounds like a good idea, i should try that. Can you search your twitter faves too?

By: Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:51:32 +0000

@Khuram – it’s generally two things:

If I read a post and it’s interesting enough for me to consider reading the other posts I’ll probably bookmark it for future reference.

However, more often I don’t have time to read the full post and just bookmark it to read it later!

I’ve also found Twitter favourites to be very useful for storing links to blog posts, never did get into that whole del.icio.us thing myself.

By: Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:49:24 +0000

@Mark, I’d completely forgotten about stumble – I tend to not have much time for that any more, but when I do it’s more of a stumbling through the random / humour sections than a “I want to keep up to date about X” thing.

You’re right on the personal blogs, the vast majority of it is dull stuff, there’s a bunch I read because they make me chuckle. But, even then, they tend not to be the “Dear diary” types but instead “the funniest thing happened” or “check out this funny link I found” etc

By: Khuram Malik

Khuram Malik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:48:17 +0000

OK, here’s a question for you.

What is that makes you add that blog or site to your RSS Feed or Favorites?

I.e. What is it that keeps you coming back?

By: Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:45:15 +0000

Yeah, it’s difficult to know when a blog with multiple full time writers needs a new label! I tend to use the bigger sites for actual news, as they tend to be faster, and small individual blogs for opinions as they tend to be more insightful and in depth.
I actually read a lot of personal blogs too, but that’s more of a social / entertainment thing.

By: themizarkshow

themizarkshow — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:43:17 +0000

I kinda mix it up between RSS feeds and reading what I just kinda stumble upon while cruising the net or chatting with people. All in all, I read probably 10 blogs regularly (most of them are tech, gaming, or comic related)… but very rarely to I end up staying up to date on any personal blogs. They just tend to bore me from post to post.

By: Khuram Malik

Khuram Malik — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:41:45 +0000

Ahh ok. Wait a minute. I didnt realise we were defining Mashable/Techcrunch etc as blogs too. I mean of course, i know that they are, but i thought you meant, personal/individual blogs.

If we’re counting those i have about 18!

I know how you feel about RSS feeds with information load though. What i do is just read them when i have time, and also mark the page as read if i know im never going to be reading it, but ultimately i find it easier to manage.

But whatever works for you ;-)

By: Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:30:04 +0000

Hey Khuram, I used to use RSS a lot, with over 20 blogs in there, then I went on holiday and came back to 300+ articles and haven’t checked it since. I tend to just visit a handful of blogs I have bookmarked, such as mashable, techcrunch, a few BBC blogs etc.

I have varied interests with blogs, I like to kept up to date on the new, in tech, social media etc. I’m also try to read as much on social CRM and other practical uses of social media as a I can these days. I also read a few geeky blogs about sci fi, and comics stuff. Pretty varied stuff really.