Reader Rory

I use Google for SO many things now. For email, for to-do lists (their "task" bar in G-mail is great), for documents (both "Word"-like dox and spreadsheets), and for their RSS-feeder, Reader. So just about every blog I read is through Reader. Otherwise, like Gennie, I'd get overwhelmed and/or waste time checking blogs that might not have been updated.



I didn't use Google/Blogger to create RAWR!, my own personal blog because I preferred Typepad's templates and services.

On my Google Reader--also like Gennie--I've divided my blogs up into categories:

• Friends, like (I wish more of my friends had blogs!)
• Home, like Young House Love and The Pioneer Woman
  
• Library, like EarlyWord and Book Nut
  
• News & Perspectives, like Jezebel and Chicagoist
  
• Popzikkle (these are celebrity gossip and crazy-stuff-on-Internet blogs I read both out of morbid, unrelenting interest and to write my own weekly e-newsletter about that stuff, which you should sign up for!), like Just Jared and dlisted
  
• Sauce (which are blogs which don't fit into any other category and just generally make my life more fun), like Chicago Hearts Trivia and I Think You're Sauceome

And thanks for this task, Shelley, because it made me tidy up my Reader a bit, unsubscribe to a few blogs. I follow the basic rule of "am I semi-excited when I see new posts from this blog?" to decide whether or not they stay. Like anything, if you let your device for organization and access get too cluttered...it just ain't a device for organization and access anymore!