Something about "RSS" feels vaguely communist, doesn't it? Anyone? No? Guess I'm alone in that feeling.

I have discovered something through this exercise! I don't like Bloglines. In fact, I think my feelings might even be slightly stronger than that. On my laptop, I have one subscription to the one feed I really care about--and the only one on a site which is difficult to navigate when trying to find the updated material--and I check and maintain that through IE, and it works really well for me. In almost all other circumstances, I prefer to visit sites myself. You know, when it comes down to it, I'm a pretty simple kid, and I don't feel like I need some external site metamanaging my interests for me. The truth is, if I need information, I'll seek it out, and if I don't feel like wading through the business/capitalist aspect of the site to find what I need, then I probably haven't needed it badly enough. I feel like Bloglines is a remote control for the Internet--you don't have to get up and change the channel anymore, and neither do you have to navigate away from one site! It's kind of ridiculous. Plus, Bloglines is ridiculously user-unfriendly. And I hate that the feeds show up on the left. What's up with that? I feel like I'm going to get a cramp when I look at the page. So far, I haven't discovered a way to change the layout.

So, despite every fiber of my being screaming for me to stop, I created my very own Bloglines account, and I added five feeds, including two of the recommended ones (I chose BBC [despite not having any need for or interest in BBC news] and a co-worker [my mother]). I'm hoping that means I'm done with Numero Siete.