I just discovered that I could make folders on Bloglines, and happily started adding a bunch of my blo.gs weblogs -- but much to my chagrin I found that many of my favorites -- I'm thinking Late Night Pool and NQPAOFU, among others -- don't have RSS feeds, and I realize I've been visiting non-RSS blogs less and less frequently, since it is hard to keep visiting sites to see if they've been updated.

This is kind of like what happened with IM. One of the sad things that I noticed after I moved to Canada was that I was in very close touch with people who were on IM, but I "talked" less and less frequently with friends who were IM holdouts. One friend in particular started using IM to keep our friendship alive. I like to think I'm pretty good about staying in touch, but being on IM ensures that my friends and I have the long-distance equivalent of seeing each other at the office, or running into each other at the cafe.

Inexplicably, I'm the only person at Flickr who uses RSS feeds, especially when there are such great feed such as Photos you've commented on -- which enables you to get a summary of comments that came after the comments you made on other people's photos; feeds of chihuahuas, graffiti or San Francisco, you name it.

LINK | 1:09 AM | TB

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