Discovery Exercise #9

I tried these, and while I found them to be OK, I don't think I'll be using them all that much.

I couldn't get Feedster to load.

When I went to Topix, I was totally turned off by the layout. It was way too cluttered for a neat-freak like myself. For example, I tried browsing the "sports" tab, but it was just a jumbled bunch of gobblety-gook. There are a couple of sites that I would go to for that news anyway (SI, ESPN) so I don't think it would be that useful to me.

I liked Syndic8.com's site better as far as being simpler. It wasn't the most aesthetically pleasing, but still less garbled than Topix. I preferred the simple list of feeds that resulted from my search. If there were anything that I wanted to subscribe too, it would have been easy to add them to a reader.

Technorati looked like a nice enough site -- ordered without being sterile -- but I still prefer using Google Reader. It's an excellent reader, with a good, clear layout, and has it's own feed/blog search built in. For the few things that I have time to read about, it's really all I need. If I'm looking for some different news sites, I usually just find interesting links from sites like CNN, etc.