Before I found the glory of RSS, I used to have a litany of web addresses memorized or at least enough terms from the name, etc, to find it on Google. Then I remember the day that I was introduced to Bloglines, by my wife, no less.

She had learned of it through the knitting community that she was becoming part of and while I had heard the term RSS, I had always associated it with a desktop client. Being tied to a single computer didn’t fit my living in “the cloud,” (or at least having multiple computers). Bloglines was the greatest discovery of 2004/2005.

As soon as I found Bloglines I became a voracious feed reader. At one point I had over 600 feeds to read daily, which meant much of my life was spent in front of a computer screen, not really getting a whole lot done, but, boy the sweet, sweet nectar called knowledge was good.
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