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Thanks again for all the blog links. I’ve enjoyed visiting all of them. The following are the ones I’ve included in my reader so far:

World - International, National, Local, Editorials, History

Hungry Blues - “My current research and writing is focused mainly on Civil Rights Movement history, racial violence in the South and current efforts to seek justice for those crimes.”

Blog: http://hungryblues.net/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hungryblues/uKhu

Business/Marketing - Social Media, Internet, Problogging

Every Dot Connects - “At Every Dot Connects we write about the world of social media and how it disrupts - but does not replace - traditional marketing and public relations.”

Blog: http://everydotconnects.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/everydotconnects

Jason Boom - “Jason Boom dot com focuses on blog writing tips, blog marketing, and a series of blogging related reviews entitled Powder Keg Reviews.”

Blog: http://www.jasonboom.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jasonboom

Search Engine Panel - “My blog is about search engine optimization and search engine marketing. It gets updated at least twice a week with helpful tips and news about the search engine industry.”

Blog: http://www.searchenginepanel.com/
Feed: http://www.searchenginepanel.com/feed/

doshdosh - “A blog offering internet marketing, blogging tips and social media strategies.”

Blog: http://www.doshdosh.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/doshdosh

Stay N’ Alive - “Stay N’ Alive focuses on Social Media technologies including Facebook, Bebo, and OpenSocial. It is about the reflections on Social Media news and technology by Social Media Guru and Author, Jesse Stay.”

Blog: http://www.jessestay.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/StayNAlive

techne-eikon - techne-eikon.com is a site that revolves around Web 2.0 and Internet Marketing Strategies. In it, I attempt to navigate the ever growing world of Web 2.0, and explore how ethical Internet Marketers fit into the grand scheme of it all. Light on news, heavy on commentary and strategy, I strive to bring a bit of sanity amidst all the hype that so many are pushing on us in these exciting new times.

Blog: http://www.techne-eikon.com/
Feed: http://tinyurl.com/2mnv3q

Evolving Web - “Discusses community, technology, management and communication. Amazingly insightful, perhaps one of the best blogs ever written! Wow!”

Blog: http://ourfounder.typepad.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/JLeroy

Technology -

Zero Hour Sleep - Rami Fayoumi co-authors this blog with another IT professional, and they blog about all computer & internet related issues.

Blog: http://www.zerohoursleep.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ZeroHourSleep

Fractured Bloughts - Despi is a “Delphi developer turned software designer, gone manager for a brief time, and the blog is about whatever strikes his fancy, currently so called “social media” thingies, plus software development, photos, but really anything.”

Blog: http://heszroland.hu/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/heszroland/ratu

Science/Health -

Patrick Curl: Utah’s new biggest Loser! - “My namesake site - where I’m trying to find sponsors to sponsor my weight loss in exchange for promotion and advertising. (I currently weigh 555 lbs and am planning on losing 300 before it’s all over with.).”

Blog: http://www.patrickcurl.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PatrickCurl

Sports

Living - Religion, Food, Advice, Gossip, Education

Brain Foggles - “Brain Foggles is about me, a wife and mom with multiple chronic illnesses. I write about my everyday life with a bit of humor. There’s health info, my Disney fanatic escapades and how I try to juggle family, my church, volunteering and staying awake!”

Blog: http://shawnsbidness.com/blog/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/shawnsbidness/Qkcl

mousewords - “Above everything, I hope to write something that inspires others to believe in the great things within themselves.”

Blog: http://mousewords.wordpress.com/
Feed: http://mousewords.wordpress.com/feed/

Buzzing with Ange - “Buzzing with Ange is where I write articles about personal development and emotional intelligence. I get inspired through books I read, seminars I attend, and the study that I do. When I first came across Jamie McIntyre, I learned to see life through a different perspective and found that you don’t have to be stuck in a 9 - 5 job and just survive. There is another way to create wealth and live the life you love.”

Blog: http://angesbiz.com/
Feed: http://angesbiz.com/feed/

Coffee with Allan Cockerill - “I’m ‘Nicheless in Bathurst’, so I write about a range of things from social networking, to relationships, Facebook, history and social issues. I also write about people that I meet in the Blogosphere, and on Facebook.”

Blog: http://allancockerill.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoffeeWithAllanCockerill

Oza Meilleur (le making of) - A Road Trip through past, present, and future…looking for happiness, making it happen, creating a life of abundance. It’s all about FUN!

Blog: http://ozameilleur.com/blog/
Feed: http://ozameilleur.com/blog/feed/atom

Glenda Watson Hyatt - Glenda Watson Hyatt shares her experiences living with cerebral palsy to motivate and inspire others to think about how they perceive their own situation and their own world around them. She does all this by typing with only her left thumb!

Blog: http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/
Feed: http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/feed/

Entertainment - Humor, Games, Reviews, Comics

The Daily Bitch - “There is no IT, no social media stuff, no news links, no interesting sites to visit (other than my extremely wonderful blogroll), no artsy stuff…I have no ambition to be a writer or photographer. I just have random thoughts that strike me as amusing sometimes. And I go on rampages about things sometimes. People say that I’m pretty funny, but usually I don’t mean to be. I think they’re just too easily
amused.”

Blog: http://brain-soup.blogspot.com/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitch

Lazylaces is my favorite site for point’n'click games.

Blog: http://www.lazylaces.com/
Feed: http://www.lazylaces.com/rss.asp

Classifieds -

Rizzn’s Shared Items - “An efficient way to evaluate a bunch of different blogs without subscribing to each and every one.”

Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RizznNewsFeed

Ooh! Shiny! is a random directory of pretty things Mel finds on-line. Products of all sorts, whether they be pretty, silly, geeky or fun. She has also recently been informed that Ooh! Shiny! is going to be listed in a book as one of the 500 most interesting sites on the web.

Blog: http://ooh-shiny.net/
Feed: http://ooh-shiny.net/?feed=atom

I’m still checking out blogs, so feel free to add yours to the list if you haven’t already.

Edit: I just want to say I love how my reader looks so far. Want to take a peek at it? Here’s the link.

Thanks for all the great blogs you gave me! They all look interesting. I hope you glanced through the list and found some interesting ones also. Feel free to suggest that others add their blogs to the list, I’m still looking for more blogs to add, and I’ve heard from a couple of you that you found new blogs to subscribe to from the list.

I was going to write an article comparing readers, but came across this post on Digital Inspiration with a good comparison of Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google Reader. For their end conclusion, Bloglines was ahead, but not by much. That’s prety much the conclusion I’d arrived at also. I prefer how Bloglines handles the blogs themselves (I really can read through my whole blog list like I’m reading a newspaper), but for extras, like sharing, although both allow it, Google makes it easier. I also appreciate having the ability to create trash e-mails in Bloglines, a great way to sign up for new sites without having to worry about more spam in your inbox.

Overall, I think all feed readers could still use some improvements. I can easily imagine a reader that learns from Firefox and gives you a plain reader to start out, but with the ability to use add-ons to turn it into exactly what you’re looking for.

One thing I ran into problems with before was how to sort the blogs I added. Since I’ve been using the newspaper analogy, I decided to start sorting blogs along those lines too.

So, I made a list of common newspaper sections. I’m not sure how all of these fit with blogs, but here’s what I have so far. What do you think? Am I missing any sections you’d use?

World: International, National, Local, Editorials
Business
Tech
Science/Health
Sports
Living - Religion, Food, Advice, Gossip, Education
Entertainment - Humor, Games, Reviews, Comics
Classifieds - Not sure about this one. What would you put here?