Get aggregated

If you read more than one or two blogs, and you’re not using an aggregator, you’re missing out. See, most of the software used to publish weblogs is designed to support RSS, a protocol that allows syndication. (For those just joining us: syndication is republishing someone else’s content, as when your crappy local paper publishes someone else’s weather data.) Anyway, the advantage of aggregators is that they gather up all the weblogs you’re interested in and put them in a single interface, so you can skim through them quickly. Mainstream news sources (including the NYT, Christian Science Monitor, and others) have syndicated feeds, too. I currently have about 50 blogs in my subscription list.
On the Mac, I use NetNewsWire. On the PC, I’ve heard good things about Syndirella and NewzCrawler, though I haven’t tried either of them.
Now, word up to DefenseTech, Bob Thompson, The Bloviator, and JohnP: your blogging software doesn’t support RSS. Please upgrade. That is all. (I was going to add Charlie Stross to the list, but even though there’s no link for it, pasting his URL into NetNewsWire does the trick.)
Personal to Julie: add the “syndicate” div to your template, OK? I had to find the URL by hand.