Welcome to all the new people checking out the blog. My site stats have really taken off in the last week.
I just wanted to make a suggestion to all the folks who are starting to read my blog or Kevin's blog or just beginning to read blogs in general: get an aggregator!
Now I'm sure that sounds like incomprehensible geek talk, but its actually very simple. Many of you are still reading blogs by going to the actual website, i.e. corbettreeves.com or kevinyandell.blogspot.com. There's an easier way. An aggregator is simply an application that lets you subscribe (for free, of course) to an individual blog via (warning: geek talk) an RSS feed. RSS just means Really Simple Syndication, that is... a really simply way to distribute information to lots of people.
Probably the two most common are Google Reader and Bloglines. It's pretty simply... you set up a free account with Google Reader or Bloglines, enter in the site addresses of the blogs you wish to follow, and then wait. Whenever you wish to see what's happening in the blogosphere, you simply log in to your feed reader and it lets you know which bloggers that you follow have new posts.
So instead of jumping around cyberspace, going to blogsites like Tonymorganlive.com and evotional.com and leadingsmart.com to see if my favorite bloggers have posted something new, I go to my google reader account (actually it pops up as a tab on my home page) and any new posts show up over in the left column. Very quick and easy. And I can read the posts right on my reader, saving me the time and effort of visiting their actual blogsites.
Give it a try! Subscribe to a few blogs you like and enjoy a new era of conveniently filling your brain with all of the info you could ever hope for... without leaving the comfortable confines of your aggregator.
Drop the rest of us a comment about how moving to an aggregator has worked for you!
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