Just a quick hit to explain the new link on our blog (the Bloglines graphic on the right menu).

With the new blog technology, I am learning everyday.  It’s a really powerful tool, especially for those who rely on the web for just about everything (of which, I am guilty).

Thanks to my blog-savvy friend I have embraced Bloglines which is a blog aggregator.

Bloglines is a freeonline service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content.  Bloglines allows you to search for, read and share any updates from your favorite news feed or blog regardless of its authoring technology.

What that means is that it’s a web page that quickly and easily sets you up to read the stuff you want and it tells you when there is new stuff you want available.  I no longer click through my top 10 sites looking for new info….Bloglines tells me when those sites have new info posted, even gives me a summary of the stories so I can decide whether or not to read them.

They don’t have to be just blogs either, in fact Bloglines picks-up the latest news from pretty much any web page (ESPN, news sites like CNN, your favorite news paper columnists, or a majority of professional news and information sites.)

Without sounding like a total shill, you find out quickly that a service like this completely changes how you find news on the web.

You don’t have to attend MIT or be a HTML genius to run this either, just sign up on a service (like Bloglines, ThePort, or Feed Demon) and you can get set up in minutes.  I love the Subscribe feature on Bloglines, you visit the sites you like, just click on the Blogline Address (that you keep in you Favorites) and it adds their feed to your Blogline list.

It’s just great technology.  If you follow this stuff, you know that most people believe this will ultimately replace emails, since it eliminates the possibility of spam….which would be a very welcome elimination.

For those of you scoring at home, this is my second “blog shill”.  The first being my new love for GPS systems.  Perhaps I get really good at shilling and I can change careers, from blogger to corporate shill. 

Stay tuned, any career changes will be announced right here on the Editor’s Blog.

-Cudo