My newsreader is getting tired

My poor newsreader. I use the Sauce Reader from www.synop.com. It's a wonderful free program for organizing and reading blogs and newsfeeds. I highly recommend it to those who are just getting started in the world of blogging. Now don't argue with me. There are dozens of other feed readers out there and I've tried quite a few of them before settling with the Sauce. It's my favorite. It may not be yours. That's fine.

You may not know it, but I actually started this blog in July of 2003. I made a couple of entries at that time and kind of set it aside because I wasn't really sure where I was going with it. It just sat there taking up server space at blogspot.com for many months until this spring. When I first started Greensboroistalking.com a few months ago, I explored some other options with a message board and photo gallery and all that. But it never really turned out like I wanted it to. So I went back and revisited this old blog I had started up. Did you ever go back and read some of your first entries? God. Mine were awful. (Not that I've progressed much...lol) Delete. Delete. Delete. That took care of that. That's why my archives now start in May instead of July 2003.

Anyways, I took another look at the blog and started looking around at some of the other blogs out there. Blame frograbbitmonkey for me finding the rest of you. A link on her site took me to HoggsBlog, which took me to EdCone which took me to etc. etc. (The power and importance of reciprocal linking.) This was it. It had the speed I was looking for. I didn't have to mess too much with all that nasty html or php coding. (Believe me I mess with that stuff enough on my "real" site...the Hockey Photo Project) And most of all. I could be my own twisted little self. I soon found out though, that clicking from link to link was a tiring process. Especially on those blogs that don't have a lot of links. This lead me to the newsreader. And now it's tired.

Not that that's a bad thing. It just means that there are now more and more blogs in the neighborhood...many of them coming onboard just in the past two weeks. And that's great. What I once dismissed has now nearly become an addiction. I get a great deal of enjoyment seeing what other people think is important, sad, amusing or just downright off the wall. Time doesn't always allow me to post each day but I do at least glance at everything that comes across. It's almost like have my own little AP wire on my computer. And believe me, after working as a radio news director in my former life, compared to the wire, this stuff is much more interesting. The thought strikes me as I'm writing this that, you are all news directors in your own way. And you are all miniature wire services. That's pretty cool. Take that, AP, Reuters, CNN, Fox and all you media moguls! Bwa ha ha ha.

So if you're still thinking about getting into blogging, get your butt over the the Piedmont Blog Conference tomorrow. And get yourself a newsreader too. You'll thank me for it.