I subscribe to a lot of blogs via RSS.
I like the convenience of it. It's passive. My email isn't full of blog posts. I can see what's been posted to recently and read in any order I choose.
The down side to RSS is that I don't always have a strong enough connection to receive the feeds when I'm travelling and the RSS subscription is specific to one computer.
Solutions other than RSS:
Email Subscription. Initially this was my preferred method of subscribing, but I already mentioned I like having less in my email.
Google Reader. I understand there might be some Phone Apps that work with Google Reader for when you're "on the go," but I don't like Google Reader. Perhaps I don't know how to use all of the "features," so I might be willing to give it a try again.
Links from my blog. My solution was to create a list of some favorite blogs on the Kathryn's Brain home page. You'll see them if you scroll down a bit on the right sidebar. --->
What's your solution? How do you keep up with your preferred content when you are away? Or do you?
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I have to admit that I don't like reading blogs from my phone. Fortunately I always have my laptop with me.
I have a huge list of blogs I follow and I use my blog roll from the dashboard to get caught up.
AWW! I'm on the list! Thank yoou!! You'd totally be on my list too. I haven't kept up my list in forever. :( I use the blogger dashboard to keep up with mine. :)
I wasn't a fan of Google Reader at first but I got fed up with Bloglines a few years ago and that seemed like the only reliable option at the time. I used to use Sage, a plug-in for FireFox, but it was computer specific. By going with Google I can read the blogs on my phone using ByLines (I'm using the freebie version right now). I used to use MobileRSS (paid version) but they had changed how some functions worked and I felt it was for the worse. They have updated since then and I believe they reverted back to at least some of the old functionality but I haven't tried it.
Reading on the phone is a bit awkward for those blogs that don't publish their full posts in their feeds (like me, but I had problems in the past with websites republishing from my feed as if it were their content). I do like to sync Bylines when I'm on WiFi if I can. Then you can read without any signal as it caches the unread posts for you so you can catch up on the plane! (Again where the partial feeds are a bit annoying, but you could put all those into one folder so you didn't bother trying to read them except when you have a connection).
Thanks for including me on your list! :-)
I keep a list of all the blogs I follow on my blog. It updates when a new post has been published so I know to go check it out. This works well for me.
Cara
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