Have you heard about this?

Check out this informative email Flower* sent me recently. Instead of clicking back a zillion times to blogs and things you find interesting, set up an RSS feed! Boy oh boy, the crazy internet is full of surprises. If you're like me, and have seen "RSS" (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) here and there and everywhere but never paid it no mind, you're about to have a V-8 moment. This was written for me, a hopelessly devoted Applehead, but I'm sure you IBM peeps can translate it for yourselves:

"Blogs (almost) all publish an "RSS feed" containing their content, in addition to the regular web version you're used to. These feeds are much handier to read than manually going to each site one at a time to see if they've updated. To read them, you need an RSS reader.

You have a few options. You can use the RSS reading functionality built in to Safari:
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_subscribe_to_rss_feeds_with_safari.html

You can download a separate piece of RSS reading software, such as Vienna or Shrook.
Or you can use a web-based RSS reader, which will consolidate all your blog reading onto a single web site. Check out for instance http://www.google.com/ig . This might be the best approach, since you can use the same setup on other computers with no configuration or downloading."

Try it, you'll dig it.

*Not his real name.