I thought the Soviet states gained independence fifteen years ago. Anyone? No? Guess I'm alone in that belief. (In other words, revisiting RSS...)

I used Bloglines' search tool, Technorati, Syndic8, and Topix to locate feeds. Bloglines and the two "t"s were the easiest to use, by leaps and bounds. I still don't understand what I was looking at in Syndic8's search results, and the main page was clunky and looked like its HTML had been written by a fourth-grader. I liked the range and organization of Technorati's results, and I appreciated the thoroughness of Topix. The Bloglines search tool allowed me to locate some interesting blogs, including The "M" Word - Marketing Libraries and Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology. I also found the New York Times Book section through a Bloglines search.

I would like to note that I did not add any of these to my Bloglines newsreader account because of my strong anti-newsreader leanings, which I mentioned earlier. But I suppose that's all right; it was not part of the explicit assignment for us to add them to our accounts, only to explore them.