Thing 5

I've registered on blogline and I'm excited to see the new feeds rolling in except I don't know what time I have to read them. Its beyond my wildest dreams how people that have full time jobs find time to maintain a blog or check out all of the feeds sent their way.

It makes me wonder if I were raised in a world where blogging and getting feeds...etc were the norm would I be more apt to use them all of the time or am I at a stage where its harder to teach an old dog new tricks.

Thing 4

Thing 4 was interesting because I like creating things, so establishing the Blogine was cool.

I had already been using "Goggle Alerts," which is a many version of Blogline. With Goggle Alerts I was sent feeds to my e-mail box. I can envision with Bloglines that it will be much easier to send a lot of feeds to one location and view them at my leisure as opposed to having feeds clog up my e-mail box.

As far as helping my writing I have already set up feeds from other Author's blogs. I can also envision setting up feeds from publishers...etc. Anything related to the genre I write in should be helpful.

All and all having a Blogline account shows promises of being a good thing.

Thing 3

Right now blogs are sort of an odd entity to me. I set this thing up on the web and espouse about, in my case writing, in hopes that someone will come along and respond. So, now I've got to figure out a way to get people to respond to my postings. What I would really like to do is to write a tale and find people that don't necessarily like or dislike the writing, but have a similar writing style and then comment on how I can improve my writing. And in turn I make suggestions to them. I guess it would be like a virtual writing group. Now that I think about it that should not be hard to find. The beauty in this would be that thousands of people could respond. For me that would be a great way to grow as a writer. In order to get people to respond I don't see much choice except to post on other peoples blogs in hopes that they will respond to my post.