Another limitation of RSS readers I’ve often griped about before: with a few exceptions (Bloglines for one), they exclude comment threads from the feed. This sends entirely the wrong message: that the posts are the main thing, and the writer of the blog is the expert. I operate on the opposite assumption: I post my [...]

Bear with me. This is an experiment in Bloglines. BL wouldn’t read the Google Video embed (Google Reader did), so I want to see if it will show this YouTube version (new original GarageBand soundtrack – my second outing as an electronic “composer”).

Google Reader keeps formatting – italics, picture resizing, etc. Bloglines doesn’t. I work on those italics, blast it. (And Bloglines readers, that “work” was italicized.) Why I don’t like any reader I know of right now: They don’t include comments (I know you can subscribe to comments, but it ain’t the same). Readers miss coComments [...]

Pageflakes – your free student and teacher start page I am a complete idiot for not reading Will Richardson religiously. Pageflakes for students and teachers is powerful stuff. – post by cburell Weblogg-ed » Using Pageflakes as Student Portal A gem from Will Richardson on classroom use of Pageflakes. I see a migration coming. – [...]

[Update: Short answer: No, Flash doesn't work either.] This is a test of feed readers. I want to see if the Flash version of the polls I embedded in “A Quick Youth Relevance Poll: School, Church, and Unschooled Youths” will show up in Bloglines and Google Reader, since the Java versions don’t. If you’ve already [...]

An invitation to you to snoop in my new history class website’s pages laying out step-by-step instructions for how to set up and use all the tools listed above to do research. All feedback is welcome. I’m especially keen to hear if anybody can suggest improvements in the process I use to subscribe to del.icio.us [...]

The burn-out I mentioned in my last post showed in the sour title. Apologies for that (and shame on me–life’s too short for sourness). I did “breathe,” as Barbara advised in a comment, and sleep in Saturday. Mental hygiene seems about done; frustration tolerance, refueled. Especially in light of the email I woke to from [...]

The continuing saga: If you’ve been reading the last week’s post, you know about the headaches Bloglines’ Image Wall has caused me and other educators who have trained our students in using feed aggregators for research. And you know that I decided to jump ship to Google Reader to avoid future headaches. Many of you [...]

I appreciated Bloglines’ attempt to listen and problem-solve, but didn’t have time to wait. Helpful comments about Google Reader led me to explore it and Netvibes yesterday as alternatives to Bloglines and that unfortunate Image Wall. Google Reader is slower than I’d like, and it possibly caused some crashes on my Firefox (though I’m sure [...]

Thanks to all who have weighed in at this Bloglines forum. There’s some good, constructive dialog going on. More input from us can only help, since Bloglines is doing its part.