Grrr... those bloglines

Ok, frustration waning. I had no trouble figuring out how to set up my bloglines account. Easily done, as was picking up some cool news feeds - Slate, New York Times Home Page, Librarian's Internet Index, and the always funny Unshelved. However, trying to figure out how to get the little bloglines button that would directly link me to my bloglines account was supremely aggravating. But, I figured it out and all is right with the world again.

I really liked Feedster at first and thought "Great, I can search a topic and then just get updated news items." I read the "Using Bloglines" tutorial, felt pretty confident, went to Feedster, then discovered that it doesn't look anything like the screen shots in the tutorial. "Well, that's ok," I thought, so I did my search, got some articles, then went back to look at the tutorial to see how to get the feed on my blog. It told me to look for the XML button. Nowhere on my results screen was there an XML button for the search. There were several RSS buttons for the individual blogs, but I couldn't get the RSS for the search like the tutorial told me I could. So Feedster is on my list.

On the plus side, I thought Syndic8 was great, super easy to use, and I got exactly what I wanted. Now, no one needs to get hurt.