Time to read blogs, anyone?

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[Lisa Haneberg]

Rosa, thanks for sharing your list. I always like picking up a few new blogs. I am techy-challenged, so if I can figure out how you shared your bloglines list, I will reciprocate.

[Rosa]

Aloha Lisa, thanks for stopping by, and you are quite welcome.

The link for my Bloglines list reads like this:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/ikeloa/
and if yours is also public, you should be able to just replace the ikeloa part with whatever you use for your subscription name.

Took me a while to figure it out too :-)

[K. Todd Storch]

Reading and keeping up with blogs are 2 very different actions, in my opinion. For example, I with "read" through BBC News, WSJ, Engaget and NY Times for example.

But I will "keep up" with Rosa, Wiz Speak, Terry at Fellowship, SlackerManager, Business Evolutionist and Adam Curry (and a bunch of others).

Reading is more passive. Keeping up requires my thought and a lot of times, an action, such as a comment (or even writing down a note in my Moleskine for a future post!).

It reminds me of voicemail. There are some calls that I don't need to return, but there are ones that I need to call back or take an action based on the info.

It takes time and effort, but don't all the good things that we do?

Todd

[Bren]

Just a quick addition to the bloglines dealio...one great way "keep up", as Todd mentions, is to liberally use the "clip/blog this" link on each post in bloglines. This will save that particular post indefinitely, along with any arbitrary text you want to associate with it.

I use "clippings" to keep track of posts that I'll use as blog fodder later on, or stuff that I just want to track at a later date. I'm too lazy to make a note in my Palm every time I find something new, so I'll just process the "clippings" every so often...

And, geez, Rosa...thanks for the kind words!

[Rosa Say]

Aloha Todd and Bren, mahalo for adding to this.

Todd I like your distinction between reading and "keeping up." When you mention voicemail it reminded me of how quickly I trained my own managers and professional associates to use email instead of voicemail for me, because email was so much quicker to scan, prioritize, and respond to. I've gotten to where I rehearse my voicemails before I ever leave one for somebody, because I am so cognizant of not taking up too much of their time.

Along the way though, you also learn to invest in relationship when the personal conversations do happen.

Bren, your clippings tip is great - I just used your technique and loved it because you pointed out adding my own arbitrary notes: I hadn't done that before, and so my clippings ended up being just another full folder that I had to re-read instead of start to use.

So thanks guys for sharing your ideas. Sometimes simple things can be so profound.