Tidy up

If you’re particularly observant and have also visited this neck of the netwoods before, you may have noticed that I’ve tidied things up a little. I haven’t really bothered to pay much attention to my blog’s sidebar since I changed the theme (whenever that was), so things have got a bit cluttered and out-of-date.

One thing that really struck me is just how many more blogs I read now than I did a couple of months ago. I used to manually check the 3 or 4 blogs that interested me each day. Then I graduated to using netvibes to subscribe to RSS feeds. After I’d filled up two tabs with feeds, I decided that it was time to do the job properly. I investigated a couple of different RSS readers, but the only one I liked was bloglines, which I’m still using faithfully.

I subscribe to new blogs almost daily. Mostly, I come across new blogs by seeing links in ones I already read, though I also use sites like blogged and stumbleupon (I use the wordpress channel) to discover new places. The blogs that I read are almost exclusively book-centric or pretty much daily journals, though there’s still a few teaching blogs that I read that have hung on from my academic phase a couple of months back.

Since I’m talking about blogging and all, now seems like a good time throw in the fact that I’ve started another blog, centred around my reading. I read a lot of book blogs and for a while I’ve wanted to get more involved, so I’ve set up Booktrash. It’s still very much a work in progress, but watch this space!