Thing 9--library blogs and such

I like to read blogs. I've liked to read blogs for a long time. It's funny--sometimes I almost forget that I don't actually "know" the people whose blogs I read, since I have been reading them for a long time.  I read Library Bytes long before Helene Blowers came to work for CML. I've read Librarian in Black for a long time. I still don't think I am going to use a RSS feed to read them, though. I like my "folder of links" methid just fine. Every once in a while, I save the links as a text file in my computer, so if something happened, I should be able to get my blogs back. But otherwise, I've been reading the same sets of blogs for so long that I should be able to remember which ones I want to read anyway. I don't like feed readers. I want to see the original blog--pictues formatting, sidebars.... Call me a fuddy duddy if you must, but that's the truth about that.  I have my folder of library blogs, and I read them when I get a chance. I didn't need Learn and Play to make me a library blog reader. I've considered it part of my professional duties for a while. 

So it's been 8 months....

So, it's been 8 months since I posted last. I almost considered just starting a new blog, but then I thought that would be cheating. I did want to finish the whole Learn and Play exercises that everyone else did while I was out on maternity leave. Our meeting with digital services yesterday prompted me to get myself started again. Before I go on posting about my opinion about Thing 8, let me show off the reason why I didn't finish Learn and Play on time in the first place. Blogosphere, I would like to introduce you to my son, Douglas James.

He is my pride and joy, and the love of my life. It breaks my heart being away from him while I'm at work. It's a good thing I like my job a lot. (I used to say "love", but now that I know what love is, I know that my job only ranks a "like a lot." Still pretty good, as far as jobs are concerned.) Anyway.....

Back to Thing #8--Bloglines, RSS, and all that.

I don't like Bloglines at all. The only reason I used it for this exercise is because I was supposed to. I do love to read blogs. A lot of blogs. My son has congenital heart disease, and there is a whole network of "Heart Mommy" blogs that I read all the time. Bloglines and other RSS aggregators don't work for this kind of blog reading, because it leaves out all the pictures. I love to see the pictures of the other Heart Babies so I can see how they are doing. Instead of using an RSS aggregator, I make a folder labeled "Blogs" on the toolbar of the computer, and save all the URLs in that folder. I know when I am not at that particular computer, I am missing some of my links, but that's OK with me. I use the same computer almost all the time, so my method works for what I need it to do. And that's all I have to say about that.